The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
ALAN BENNETT
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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