Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
ALAN BENNETTThe 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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