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" I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God's presence. "
Spike Milligan
Mother
Church
God
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" Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? "
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" The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to the chef for trying and ten out of ten to us for eating it. "
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" The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over. "
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" For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. "
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" My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well. "
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" The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.' "
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" Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. "
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" Is the modern social pattern of unending change and movement the cause of two modern diseases, insecurity and dissatisfaction? How lucky Thomas Hood was to be able to write, 'I remember, I remember the house where I was born.' I don't even know what mine looked like! "
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" I can speak Esperanto like a native. "
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I Can
" I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it. "
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Hands
Prove
" It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school. "
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Remember
Myself
Doing
" Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. "
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You
Money
" I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. "
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Mine
Why
Thought
" Things began to improve when I went to Rangoon. To begin with, my father was promoted, which meant he was at home more. The matriarchal society was ended, and for the first time, I went to a boys' school. "
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School
Father
Home
" And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. "
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God
Electricity
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" As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness. "
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Depression
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" I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke. "
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Somebody
Years
Many
" I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.' "
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Stars
Me
Life
" We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating. "
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War
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" I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens. "
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Want
" You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals. "
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Animals
" How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven. "
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Long
Army
Five
" When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. "
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Sadness
" May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots. "
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Down
Spain
Socks
" Driver Shepherd and I had been detailed to drive Lt. Budden in the Wireless Truck. We had been standing by vehicles for an hour, and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently. "
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Standing
Driver
Drive
" I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals. "
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Look
Race
Treat
" Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too. "
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Stop
Think
Thankful
" It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't. "
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He
Perfect
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