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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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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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If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.
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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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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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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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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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