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• He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

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  Night, Insomnia, Thinking

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• Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.

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  Mushrooms, Ham, Olives

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• Money has no religion except itself.

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• An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

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  Couple, Law, Impossible

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• Symmetry is for God, not for us.

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  Symmetry

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.257, Vintage

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• Love delayed is lust augmented.

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  Lust, Delayed

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• Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

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  Childhood, Insanity, Expected

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.74, Vintage

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• What keeps me going is my children.

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  Children, My Children

  "Louis de Bernières: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

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  Contentment, Needs, Nightmare

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• Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

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  Love Is, Kind, Symptoms

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage

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• Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

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  Beautiful, Reality, Sublime

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.27, Vintage

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• The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

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  Father, Military, Soldier

  "Louis de Bernières: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.

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  Children, Men, Joy

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• Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

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  Giving Up, Mps, Law

  "Louis de Bernières: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

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  Mother, Children, Father

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• It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human beings in the world, and God knows how many millions of people long dead who have been lost to history, all of whom were probably special to someone.

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  Stupid, Long, People

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• God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

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  God, Religious, Heart

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• So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

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  Children, Father, Law

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