Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
ALAN BENNETTOur perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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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.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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