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 BENNETTOne reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is 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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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