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"Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
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"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."
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"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."
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"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy."
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"Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies."
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"There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness."
Grief
"I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be."
Life
"Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on."
Cooking
"People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad."
People
"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
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"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."
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"In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes."
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"You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be."
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