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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.
Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
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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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