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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.

Alan Bennett

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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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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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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
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I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury's, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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What I'm above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that's it really: I'm taking the pith out of reality.
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It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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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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You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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