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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

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That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.

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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

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A free press needs to be a respected press.

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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.

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The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3rd, 1937

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