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Animals Eat Each Other
“I’m pretty sure the meaning of life is about sex. Otherwise, why do we suffer so much for it? Why do guys get jobs they hate? Why do men marry women they don’t like? Why do girls do the stupid shit they do? Why do they all seem so fucking unhappy?”
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3 Author’s Desert Island Discs
Authors often feature on Desert Island Discs. Here are my favourite author-episodes.
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Bad Blood
“The way Theranos is operating is like trying to build a bus while you’re driving the bus.”
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The House of Illustration
“As an illustrator you need to understand the human body – but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you’ve seen and what you imagine.” – Quentin Blake
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Classic Scrapes
“When I was a baby, I urinated in my own mouth. […] The reason I’m telling you this is so that, straight out the gate, you know who I am and where I came from. This is how my life began and more or less how it continued for many, many years. This book is…
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Reviews of both the script and the performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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A Right Royal Face-Off
A satire of one of England’s greatest portrait painters, Thomas Gainsborough.
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Never Greener
“We spend most of our lives wishing we were somewhere else or someone else, or looking forward or harping back. Always thinking the grass is greener on the other side. But it never is. It’s still grass. Just a different patch of it, that’s all.”
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