It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
ALAN BENNETTDeluded 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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