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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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 for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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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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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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