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" Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. "
Spike Milligan
Better
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Got
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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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Band
" I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships. "
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I Am
" My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were all-powerful. I knew that they were an elite in India. "
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Time
Thought
" It's all in the mind, you know. "
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Know
You
" 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
" 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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" 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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Over
Try
Sadness
" All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. "
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Happy
Ask
Me
" Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? "
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Going
You
Come
" 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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Illness
Depression
Disease
" I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it. "
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Still
Hands
Prove
" 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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Insecurity
Change
Remember
" I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens. "
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Dying
Afraid
Want
" I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals. "
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Look
Race
Treat
" My parents always threw everything out, gave everything away. I'm surprised they never threw me away. That's why I've always kept my children's things. My parents had no feelings for belongings. "
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Feelings
Children
Parents
" 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
" 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
" I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state. "
Spike Milligan
Think
Depression
Challenge
" My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. "
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Influence
Father
Profound
" 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. "
Spike Milligan
Trying
Us
Dinner
" 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. "
Spike Milligan
Think
People
Animals
" A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. "
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Sure
Sit
Funny
" I'm a hero with coward's legs. "
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Legs
Hero
Coward
" 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
Light
" Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. "
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Should
Occasion
Used
" 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
" 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
" Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order. "
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Worn
Working
Perfect
" 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
" Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her. "
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She
Me
Doing