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"There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."
Money
"For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook."
Sex
"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent."
Talent
"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."
Time
"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."
Time
"The trouble with children is that they're not returnable."
Family
"Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps."
Virtue
"Sex is the last refuge of the miserable."
Sex
"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
Failure
"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
Opportunity
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
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Personal Development
"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."
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Personal Development
"Fun is never gone because life is fun."
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Personal Development
"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Remember these two things: play hard and have fun."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun."
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