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In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is discuss it. You know, I really do think this whole business of non-communication is one of the more poignant fallacies of our zestfully overexplanatory age.
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Everybody in Los Angeles lives miles away, not from anywhere, because there isn't actually an anywhere to live away from, but from each other.
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I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organize play, the spirit of play.
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People should worry about each other. Because worry is just love in its worst form. But it's still love.
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Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.
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Faith is... is a matter of believing what's impossible to believe. Do you, um, see? Otherwise it's not faith. It's certainty.
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Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.
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Simon Gray
Born:
October 21, 1936
Died:
August 7, 2008
(aged 71)
Bio:
Simon James Holliday Gray was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years.
Known for:
Butley (1971)
Quartermaine's Terms (1981)
The Smoking Diaries (2004)
The Common Pursuit (1984)
The late middle classes (1999)
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