A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
ALAN BENNETTRemember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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 thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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