Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
ALAN BENNETTI bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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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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