Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.


Alan Lerner

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ALAN COLMES
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS
Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT
I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT
I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT
I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT
If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING