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

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“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.”

“Fay: Your explanation had the ring of truth about it.. Naturally I disbelieved every word.”

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"Essay about Tolkien by his grandson, Simon Tolkien."

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"All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enabl…"

— John Ralston Saul

Politics1947

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"In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity."

— Edward Leigh

Literature1602–1671

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"At these meetings, which were about the year 1655, divers experiments were suggested, discoursed, and tried with various successes, though no other account was taken of them but what particular person…"

— Robert Hooke

Science1635–1703

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