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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.

Alan Bennett

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
ALAN BENNETT

Cruel Give Nature Paly Trick Waxed
To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETT

Begin Read Some Trepidation True Unease
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Do God Him Keep Long Mention No Sleeve Vicar
You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Condition Else Generally Kind Nothing Patient People Remember Wisdom
But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Cambridge Decide Happen Headmaster Oxford Push Some Try
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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Better Play Conscious Film Good No Often Raed Script Such Thing
Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Always Course Date Make Out Standard
God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Either Excuse God Jesus Christ Mote
But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Action Aure Book Buy Know Prompt Se; Dom
Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
ALAN BENNETT

Call Course Date Out Standard
Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
ALAN BENNETT

Book Bread Butter Finish Mash One Philosophy Plate Potato
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
ALAN BENNETT

Art Begin Come Form Imitate Parofy Process Voice
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
ALAN BENNETT

Day Down Have Knighthood Life Suit Turn Wear
It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
ALAN BENNETT

Go Like Out Pace Picture Reality Total Wipe
I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETT

Left Male National Park Serengeti White Wish
Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETT

Alter Back Dead Front Ground Immediately Look One Past Perspective

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