One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
ALAN BENNETTI’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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