Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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 wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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