"Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense."
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"Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies."
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"Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it."
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"Pass the pub that wrecks your body And the church, all they want is your money"
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"I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place."
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"I'd rather produce art than become art."
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"You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry."
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"Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear."
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"Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel."
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"War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men."
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"I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian."
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"I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in."
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"Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her."
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"On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come 'round"
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"Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?"
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"If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall."
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"And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life"."
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"I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever."
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"Nature is a language - can't you read?"
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"I still prefer horses to human beings."
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