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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.

Alan Bennett

There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Entire Microbe More Person Population World
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
ALAN BENNETT

Art Begin Come Form Imitate Parofy Process Voice
The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Day Enough Long Raed Want
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
ALAN BENNETT

Chance never Next Now Out Sometimes Time
What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
ALAN BENNETT

Above Concern Pith Primarily Reality Substance
Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Above Humanity Literature might One Queen Said Well
Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Deluded Entire Fellow Goldy Liberal More Ought Persist Sexual Sober Streak Think Unorthodoxy
And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Come Dead Down Hand Long Person Set Someone Your
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
ALAN BENNETT

House Live never Write
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT

Children Closer Empire Grass Ground Now
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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Book Commonwealth Equal Herself Literature Read Reader Republic
Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World
I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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Besides Director Down Hierarchy More Piss Place Quite Really Risky Think Took Writer
It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
ALAN BENNETT

Happen History Mood Something Subjunctive Use
If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
ALAN BENNETT

Pity Reality Really Sum Suppose Talk Work
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETT

Men Most Poem Regard Threaten Women

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