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On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."

— Joe Orton The Orton Diaries (1986)

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With insanity, as with vomit, it is the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

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Usual messages from the heads of the establishment. The Queen from Windsor, the Pope from Rome: Pilate and Caiaphas celebrating the birth of Christ.

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Truscott (shouting, knocking Hal to the floor): Under any other political system I'd have you on the floor in tears!
Hal (crying): You've got me on the floor in tears!

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Truscott: How dare you involve me in a situation for which no memo has been issued.

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Hal: God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes.

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