Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
ALAN BENNETTLife is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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