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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.
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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.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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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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The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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You 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.
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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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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.
Alan Bennett
