Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETTNor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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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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