Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
ALAN BENNETTThere is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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