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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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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.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.
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