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"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."
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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
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"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe."

"Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone."

"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well."

"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women."

"Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?"

"Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing."

"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement."

"Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them."

"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world."
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