Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
ALAN BENNETTIf you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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