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"I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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"I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know."

"Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest."

"Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment."

"I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now."

"At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life."

"I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book."

"I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life."

"I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power."

"Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel."
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