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"You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height."
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"Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb."
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"You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height."
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"I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations."
Books
"It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common."
American
"As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth."
Government
"I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there."
American
"Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form."
People
"It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue."
Cliches
"You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height."
Cheerfulness
"I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me."
Age
"It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends."
Men
"I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance."
Truth
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