Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
ALAN BENNETTAt the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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