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.
ALAN BENNETTImagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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