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" Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key. "
Alan Bennett
Life
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" I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. "
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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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" I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university. "
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" Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. "
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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 write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. "
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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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" 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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" I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really. "
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" I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated. "
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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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" I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one. "
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Any
Nickname
" Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching. "
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Nobody
Side
Watching