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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I'd have thought, slightly more risky.
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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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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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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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Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists?
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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