"Prentice: This appalling situation is the result of my lax moral code. It's clean living and Teach Yourself Woodwork for me from now on!"

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“Mrs Prentice: Have you taken up transvestism? I'd no idea our marriage teetered on the edge of fashion.”

“Extract from June 1967 Interview”

“With insanity, as with vomit, it is the passerby who receives the inconvenience.”

“I was approached to do a film script for the Beatles. I said it would have to be an absolutely original script. Paul McCartney said do whatever you like. I said that means you'll never be able to do it.”

“Geraldine: At least give me back my clothes. I feel naked without them.”

“Hal: God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes.”

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"You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all."

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