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Alan Ayckbourn Quotes

born 1939 England

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE (born 12 April 1939) is one of England's most prolific and commercially successful comic playwrights.

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There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

They've started this filthy floodlit cricket with cricketers wearing tin hats and advertisements for contraceptives on their boots.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

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?

A Crash Course in Playwriting (1993)

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Ayckbourn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.