I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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