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Pope Paul has always struck me as resembling Mr Heath in his extraordinary capacity for remaining rock-like and unbadgeable on every issue where common sense and prudence require him to bow before the prevailing wind, while bowing like a Japanese lavatory attendant before puffs of breeze which others would not even have noticed.

— Auberon Waugh

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There is no such thing as a normal human being. Nobody looks so eccentric as the man who is trying to look normal.

The price of privilege is eternal vigilance.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

Murder does not rank as a scandal, in the way that financial impropriety or (to a lesser extent) sexual misbehaviour might. Murder is more of a misfortune, part of the American way of life. It is considered in bad taste to bring up the subject in conversation.

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