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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More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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