You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
ALAN BENNETTI can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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