An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
ALAN BENNETTI have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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