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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."
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"It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common."


"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."


"You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that."


"Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive."


"You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height."


"I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style."


"It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong."
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