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Alan Bennett ist ein britischer Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Regisseur, Schauspieler sowie Drehbuchautor. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Mai 1934
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“Franklin: Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery with Violence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.”

Alan Bennett Forty Years On

Act 2.
Bennett is often credited with having coined the pun "snobbery with violence", though he himself pointed out in Writing Home (1994), p. 199, that the phrase had been used by Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk in 1932 as the title of a pamphlet.
Forty Years On (1972)

“I have no doubt that in heaven the angels will regard the blessed as a necessary evil.”

Diary entry for August 9, 1985, p. 290.
Writing Home (1994)

“Golightly: Call me Fingers.”

On the Margin (1966)

“That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.”

Quoted in the Daily Telegraph, October 30, 2004. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/10/30/dl3003.xml
When asked by Sir Ian McKellen, in 1997, whether he was heterosexual or homosexual.

“Headmaster: They were all socialists. Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists?”

Alan Bennett Forty Years On

Act 2, p. 75.
Of the Bloomsbury group.
Forty Years On (1972)

“To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.”

Diary entry for June 7, 1985, p. 143.
Writing Home (1994)

“George: I hate them all.”

Getting On, Act 1 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9oQ7ixhMOvoC&pg=PT78&lpg=PT78&dq=%22six+of+them+left+in+the+Serengeti+National+Park%22&source=bl&ots=TH3N9i4L0i&sig=Os09ib4PvAEbQ3RjCJeh-R3j4Kk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dp5sU9yYHcPH7Aa7uoCABQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22six%20of%20them%20left%20in%20the%20Serengeti%20National%20Park%22&f=false.

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