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 BENNETTKafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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