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| 1 | Drug addiction is hard to understand if you have no need to be anesthetized. |
| 2 | The Whole Show might be about to hit the end of the Pier. |
| 3 | [Question Time, Why can't we have panels of Experts run the NHS, instead of it being a Political Football?] Oooh! You can't have Experts! They're NOT ALLOWED ANYMORE! |
| 4 | I have to say, I think the Brexiteers are living in a weird kind of: "Bring back the Birch! Bring back Bicycles! Bring back Spinsters! Bring back Two-way Family Forces Favorites!" What else are you going to bring back? Semolina? |
| 5 | [Time Magazine's Man of the Year, Trump] These are not great Statesmen. They are grubby little opportunists. |
| 6 | [Trump] I think it's such a paradox that Nigel Farage subscribes to the Great Man of History View when he fails so miserably in measuring up to that himself. It's not the man, it's what he Symbolises. |
| 7 | The wholesome social encounter of buying a book has been reduced to a click. |
| 8 | [Debate] You know what I think? I think we all just saw the Head of the Royal College of Psychiatrists do a comic turn to try and win us over. |
| 9 | [London Olympics] ...boondoggle... |
| 10 | [2015 Election] Freud would have called this "The Narcissism of Small Differences". |
| 11 | [Death of Philip S Hoffman] The thing about opiate addiction is it appropriates a rightfully medical role, I don't mean to be trite about this, serious point, addiction comes about at the same time as the full professionalization of medicine and the elevation of medicine to our kind of modern priesthood, our kind of spiritual priesthood, so the idea that someone should appropriate this thing that only doctors are meant to do and do it to themselves is very shocking. |
| 12 | The entire Culture for which the aspirant writers are being educated is winking out of existence. |
| 13 | These MA Creative Writing Courses, I sat in with Cecilia and they went round the room with their work and asked for feedback. So I gave my feedback and Cecilia said "No, Will, this is the Positive Feedback Section" and I said "Cecilia, that WAS my Positive Feedback"... |
| 14 | Connolly once again rose to the occasion with an apothegm: "It is closing time in the Gardens of the West!" |
| 15 | Regarding drugs I say that a given drug experience might be interesting but repeating that experience over and over is pretty bloody boring. |
| 16 | I think the main difficulty people have writing long form fiction is knowing that it will never be read, which is a terrible thing. |
| 17 | [News of the World Phone Hacking Scandal] The reversion to type will also occur because people want to see Celebrities brought low or people in the Public Eye, there is a great popular appetite for that, not just laughing at peoples' [It's not going to change, though] It's not going to change because it's symptomatic of a kind of weird demagogic faux egalitarianism in our Culture, the kind of Big Brother Culture, the idea that anyone can be a Star but QED anyone can be dragged down from that pedestal as well. |
| 18 | This whole imbroglio is epiphenomenal! |
| 19 | Some of you are too young to know this, but back in the 80s authors were Gods! We were on the front of newspapers, we had groupies! It's not like that anymore. |
| 20 | If a TARDIS is outside Space and Time, then you should be able to fit a bigger TARDIS inside a smaller TARDIS. |
| 21 | Who says language is innate? I have to learn it anew every day... |
| 22 | I've spent a lot of time in Bed & Breakfasts because my parents didn't like me growing up, but didn't have the courage to put me into care... |
| 23 | I don't doubt people feel better on SSRIs, that's the paradox. They are working because of their belief, and what are they believing in? A kind of scientism and the reduction of themselves to chemical units. The very opposite of a soulful and embodied existence. No wonder so many prescriptions get written. |
| 24 | When we were young it was the Balance of Payments deficit that people were worried about. The difference between the value of what we import and export. You don't hear about that any more. What you hear about now is Consumer Demand. Consumer Demand, you could have no more telling example of what our society has become, how soulless our society has become, than that it measures its moral and spiritual health on the basis of whether it is buying enough shit. |
| 25 | [David Cameron called this Referendum] as a tactical measure. The irony is that the Tories have been hoisted by the petard of unforeseen consequences. |
| 26 | I think this [Brexit] is a highly disruptive, wrong-headed and stupid thing to do. |
| 27 | You should have an understanding for the people who feel their lives were shattered this morning. |
| 28 | I called this a few weeks ago, I could see that the pollsters were not getting to Tribal Labour who nonetheless was powerfully anti-immigration and very, very uncomfortable with what they saw as "the dilution of the British national character" and it's them what won it, they came out and they couldn't be reached by the pollsters, they couldn't be called by the markets, they don't understand these people, and Dreda's right, this is the constituency that she's summoned up, but they're not the people she thinks they are, that's the problem.[Dreda Say Mitchell: What do you mean they're not the people..?] They're not the people: Oh, what's that up there in the sky! Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's Boris Johnson come to deliver you social justice and a more equal society! |
| 29 | There's a great spreading middle-aged back end sitting on our politics and our economics at the moment. |
| 30 | The point about contemporary British politics is that our voting system no longer adequately represents the diversity of political opinion, either in the Labour Party or the Tory Party. The Labour Party needs to split and so do the Tories. |
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