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Alan Bennett


English
May 9, 1934
Dramatist
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.


Alan Bennett
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.


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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.


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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
Alan Bennett
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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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The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest.
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We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
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I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with.
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I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.
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