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 BENNETTOne of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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Imagine 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.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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