I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETTHis writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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