Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
ALAN BENNETTArtists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
ALAN BENNETTA book, as it were, closes the book.
ALAN BENNETTf they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
ALAN BENNETTWe started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETTHistory is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
ALAN BENNETTYou always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
ALAN BENNETTSometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
ALAN BENNETTOf course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
ALAN BENNETTAn article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
ALAN BENNETTIt’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
ALAN BENNETTOnly 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.
ALAN BENNETTAll 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.
ALAN BENNETTI wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETTWe have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
ALAN BENNETTNature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
ALAN BENNETTPut him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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