An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
ALAN BENNETTWhy do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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 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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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