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"The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead."

"I wanted to join Footlights, he says. "I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken."

"There was a sort of gallery structure in the roof space which held a bed and also a bathroom which you could actually swing a cat in. But only if it was a reasonably patient cat and didn't mind a few nasty cracks about the head."

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reasons."

"You know because you've been it, and I know because I'm dead and it gives one such a wonderfully uncluttered perspective."

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."

"OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool approaching critical mass, this is... this is... total vocabulary failure!"

"Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through."
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