Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
ALAN BENNETTArt 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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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 think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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