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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Glass Life Nobody Other Side Watching Whole Your

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Assumed Book Classic Definition Everyone Often Read Thinks

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Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Able About Love Romantic Romantic Love Write

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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Always Assume Children Come Conception Grinding Halt Lives Parents Sexual

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

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Control Expression Favour Free Kept Provided

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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Elsewhere Generally Happens Life Something

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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Any Bore Cancer Illness Like Other

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My films are about embarrassment.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: About Embarrassment Films

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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Children Closer Grass Ground Now Were

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I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: About Mind Out Plays Resolve Root Things Try Write I Write

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: May 9th, 1934

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