That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
ALAN BENNETTThe longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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