Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
ALAN BENNETTIt seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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