It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
ALAN BENNETTI don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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