Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETTI 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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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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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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