"There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart."

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Spike Milligan

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“Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.”
“The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with multimillion-dollar films that depict people doing terrible things to each other. If you read newspapers, you have every right to believe that Bad Nasty Things compose 90 percent of the human experience. But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.”
“I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.”

Source : Geoffrey Bennington, Jacques Derrida (1999). “Jacques Derrida”, p.20, University of Chicago Press
“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.”
“My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home”
“Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.”
“in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.”
“There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.”

Source : "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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