The 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.
ALAN BENNETTCulminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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