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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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A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient…
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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming…
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A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and…
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Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there,…
— Ellen Hopkins
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(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer…
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When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair…
— Dylan Moran
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I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
— Caroline Lawrence
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