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.
ALAN BENNETTPut him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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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