Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
ALAN BENNETTI’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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