eugenisms
eugen
on
being abroad:
"things
always happen when you're on holiday
or
travelling on business
it's
the nature of emotional displacement
i
have a theory on it"
falling in love:
"in
essence it's what we do all our lives
only
we did it more concentrated
only
we
did it more stoned"
"if
there is one subject i am uniquely qualified to speak on
it
is
unrequited
love
(and
death for that matter)
because
i've been through them both
and
back"
quentin tarantino:
"quentin
tarantino is so full of himself
that
if you stood him on his head
the
man would drown to death
in
a pool
of
ego"
amsterdam:
"if
we sit on location in london skinning up
we
get arrested
whereas
if we do it here we blend into the scenery"
"there's
no need for an english teacher living in holland to learn dutch
the
dutch speak better english
than
most english
the
english teacher probably included"
"i
think the temptation here of going with the flow
is
such that you'd end up
quite
literally
at
sea"
the men in his life:
"all
we need now is for my lovely cross-eyed australian to turn up unannounced
and confess that he's madly in love with me and hey presto: shiny happy
people
all
around"
"nobody
who
makes you a strawberry pie
can
possibly be wary of you"
strawberries in general:
"i
like strawberries
more
than anything you can eat
with
cream
or
drink
with
champagne"
the human condition:
"you
know that feeling when somebody calls you on the phone and you have a chat
and before you hang up you do the 'must-stay-in-touch' routine and just
as you're about to ask them if they've got your number you think: hang
on: i'm utilising less of my brainpower here than my maker had probably
had in mind"
"surely
the degree to which you're alive
expresses
itself in terms of how much living you do
more
than say in terms of
how
much longer you're going to be hanging around on the planet"
"looking
depressed may suit you young people
lending
you an air of
enigma
on
me however it just looks ugly
and
ugliness at my age
isn't
an asset
just
yet"
"nature
don't
you just love it"
the british:
"well
we've lost hong kong to the chinese
the
savoy to the americans
harrods
to egypt
christie's
to the french and
rolls
royce to the krauts
i
don't think that losing ireland to the irish
needs
to be seen as a particularly noteworthy act of negligence
on
the part of the british"
the germans buying rolls royce:
"that's
showing off
the
final insult
it's
rubbing in the fact that you can lose the wars and still win the century"
living together:
"i'm
a useless person to live with because i don't do that
shoulder-and-neck-massage-type-thing
that people always want"
fairies:
"they don't use the front door you know"
