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 BENNETTLife is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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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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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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