An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
ALAN BENNETTThat’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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