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Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.

Alan Bennett

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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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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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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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 dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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