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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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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth letters a republic.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.
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But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.
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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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To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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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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Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists?
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My films are about embarrassment.
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The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.
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The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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