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A. A. Gill has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson…
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing…
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A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment…
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing…
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
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Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The…
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot…
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The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like…
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Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little…
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Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also…
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist…
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Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.
— Caroline Corr
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A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a…
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One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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Easy, Curious George! Get your grubby hands off of that wheel!
— John Cena
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Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.
— Theodore Roethke
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Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait…
— Ben Nicholas
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Will picked a single blossom from a gorse bush beside him; it shone bright yellow on his grubby hand. "People are very…
— Susan Cooper
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What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who…
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