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 BENNETTI think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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