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.
ALAN BENNETTI don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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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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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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