We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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