"The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945."

-- Tony Benn

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“The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.”
“There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.”
“I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.”
“I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies,”
“A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; itâ€™s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.”
“You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.”
“I had a lot of fun [on The Voice] and I learned a whole lot about reality TV, for one, and how they kind of use the artists as characters to make a hit TV show.”
“It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone elseâ€™s shoes and understand the otherâ€™s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them. . .”

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