I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
ALAN BENNETTThere are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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