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 BENNETTIf, 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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