One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
ALAN BENNETTYou 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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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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[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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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.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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