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"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."
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Personal Development

"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
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Personal Development

"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself."
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Personal Development

"I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true."
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Personal Development

"For years I wanted to be older, and now I am."
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"From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you."
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"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write."
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"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid."
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"Now some are saying maybe $1.6 trillion in is not enough maybe we should look at $2 trillion."
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"I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro."
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"I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening."
Reassurance


"People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift."
People


"When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion."
Day


"It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road."
People


"I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression."
People


"My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift."
Impression


"If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it."
Computer


"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage."
Home


"I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education."
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"Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column."
Now
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