"That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England."
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"People think that I live in England and have a British accent."
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"England is an aquarium, not a nation."
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"No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it."
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"One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England."
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"It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all."
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"I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American way of talk, I'm an old-fashioned American. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm in England now and why I'll always stay in England."
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"England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there."
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"The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought."
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"Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England."
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"There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health."
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"We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone."
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"New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in."
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"No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait."
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"I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing."
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"Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it."
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"This souls'prison we call England."
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"I love England - it's no secret."
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"In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy."
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"All the Armes of England will not arme feare."
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