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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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"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."

"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."

"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."

"To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better."
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"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
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"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."


"I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing."


"I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop."


"I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again."


"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."


"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."


"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good."
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