Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTSoft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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