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“I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
“My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
“And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
“I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
“Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”
― A Lady of Persuasion
― A Lady of Persuasion
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