Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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