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Alan Ayckbourn
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“Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.”
Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface to The Norman Conquests (New York: Grove Press, [1975] 1988) p. 11.
“There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.”
Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Newsweek (25 March 1979).
“A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?”
Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Crash Course in Playwriting" (1993) .
“The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.”
Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Crafty Art of Playwriting (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) p. 3.
“They've started this filthy floodlit cricket with cricketers wearing tin hats and advertisements for contraceptives on their boots.”
Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Gardener in Love, Intimate Exchanges (1982).