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.
ALAN BENNETTOnly when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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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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