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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

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He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

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I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

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It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

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'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

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It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's.

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Freedom without limits is just a word.

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Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

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I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: April 28th, 1948

Died: March 12th, 2015

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