"Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building."

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"They spend their time looking forward to the past."

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"Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves."

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"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."

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"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."

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"The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex."

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"Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years."

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