One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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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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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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