It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
ALAN BENNETTWhy is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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My films are about embarrassment.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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