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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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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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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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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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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