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" Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it. "

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" The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being. "

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" I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief. "

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" What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose. "

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" Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art gallery, go to a museum, become somehow interested in these things. If they're not interested, they shouldn't be in government, full stop. "

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