A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
ALAN BENNETTHere I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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