You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
ALAN BENNETTYou 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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