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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.

Alan Bennett

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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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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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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
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f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!
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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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Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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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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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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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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