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  • There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

    "Rupert bared". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2002.