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"I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across."
"[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover."
"He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes."
"Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer."
"Fans are my favourite thing in the world"
"The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject."
"My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing."
"Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide."
"Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England."
"When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.)"
"People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good."
"I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come."
"If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do."
"I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds."
