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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.

Alan Bennett

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According Article Daily Hard Left List Mall Playwright
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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Can Coat Culminate Kindly Man Name Prime Minister Say Tell White
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Civilization Day End Know Other Pee Somebody Thought
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Crise Majority People Perform Spotlight Them
At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Eighty Occur Recur Thing
There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Better Play Conscious Film Good No Often Raed Script Such Thing
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Do God Him Keep Long Mention No Sleeve Vicar
You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Entitle Knowledge Master Servant Superior
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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Being Born Find Go People Rose Sight Virginia Way Wool Yourself
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Brief Close Down Invite Open Perpetually Raed Subject Up
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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Condition Else Generally Kind Nothing Patient People Remember Wisdom
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Anarchist Community Obey People Rule Small Start Try
But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Balck Cambridge Contrast Day Fairstory Frost Hard Leed Seem Something Sooty Wonderful
I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Bet Depute Doubt Stoppard Underling
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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Author Best Character Creature Decide Imagination Met Much Novel Page Probably Reader Soon
But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Cambridge Decide Happen Headmaster Oxford Push Some Try

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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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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