Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
ALAN BENNETTRemember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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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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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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