But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
ALAN BENNETT
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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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