"Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?"
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"If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion."
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"Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?"
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"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."
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"A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans."
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"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease."
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"I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing."
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"There's a lot of your family in tonight."
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"My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic."
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"Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen."
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"Tell the children the truth."
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"While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that."
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"You have mosquitoes. I have the Press."
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"So this is feminist corner then."
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"You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?"
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""It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys.""
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"I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down."
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"I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield."
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"The French don't know how to cook breakfast."
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"No, I'd probably end up spitting it out over everybody."
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