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 BENNETTHowever bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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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.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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