An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
ALAN BENNETTHave you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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