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A. A. Gill

" The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule. "

Thinking , School , Interesting

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" The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule. "

Thinking , School , Interesting

" Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life. "

Day , Commitment , New

" The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas. "

Knowledge , Art , Ideas

" You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off. "

World , Travel , Years

" Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions. "

People , Facts

" A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise. "

Promise , Compliment

" Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present. "

Past , Fiction , Way

" Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else. "

Negative , Dirty

" Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go. "

Television , Enemy , Looks

" The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows. "

Rooms , Window

" Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.' "

People , Thinking , America

" The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer. "

Children , Sex , Cheating

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