Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they’re both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
A. A. GILLAmerica didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they’re not allowed into rooms with windows.
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They’re not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers’ melt waters to go back
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
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Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It’s among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
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I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn’t watch television when the sun is out.
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A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo’s compliment and fishy as a chancellor’s promise.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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I don’t know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don’t. What draws me back year after year is that it’s like seeing the world with the lid off.
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
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