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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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Our father the novelist my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!
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