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I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.
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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 turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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