Jonathan Lynn Quotes

#1. They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy produced they were able to hide their true feelings of disgust and envy.

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#2. Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

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#3. Mrs Hacker was the only woman present. They'd made her a sort of honorary man for the evening.

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#4. Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

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#5. Civil servants have an extraordinary genius for wrapping up a simple idea to make it sound extremely complicated.

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#6. If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

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#7. Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifiers with the appropriate emancipated subjectivity.

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#8. You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!

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#9. I haven't got a gun you homicidal pillock!

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