An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
ALAN BENNETTStandards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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