"As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women."
-Julie Burchill
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"It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.“
-Julie Burchill
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"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."
-Julie Burchill
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"There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of."
-Julie Burchill
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"My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown."
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"One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'"
-Julie Burchill
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"It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself."
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"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
-Immanuel Kant
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