An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
ALAN BENNETTIt’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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