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I enjoy doing nothing.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Doing Nothing
Enjoy
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One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Gambling
Horse
Runaway
Way
Bet
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Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Alternatives
Journalism
Thinkable
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Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Black
Self
Stars
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The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Addiction
Drinking
Impossible
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I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Care
Couple
Students
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I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Kids
Dislike
Hatred
People
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There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Bloody
Champagne
Lying
Servant
Sipping
All Day
Servants
Undignified
Waited
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In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Money
Gambling
Luck
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Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Jobs
Couple
Despised
People
Admit
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Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Journey
Boring
Drinking
Memories
Journeys
Lane
Memory
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I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Autobiography
Be Grateful
Grateful
Would Be
Writing
Your Me Doing
Commissioned
Me Doing Your
Readers
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The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Cricket
Gone
Reason
University
Want
Good Reason
Suppose
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My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Alcohol
Bed
Midnight
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When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Boys
Wake Up
Would Be
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One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Getting Older
Mean
Use
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What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Intelligent
People
Thinking
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It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Dropping
Drunk
Dylan
Likes
Names
People
Bacon
Francis
Thomas
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But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Bloody
Comfort
Matter
Want
Warm
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Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades, and good standing among your friends'.
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Women
Government
Should Have
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A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Girl
Getting Married
Income
Income Tax
Oxford
School
University
Tax
Annoy
Payer
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It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Gambling
Lying
Offering
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They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared.Then the head turns to give you a profile and the smoke is exhaled slowly and deliberately and the grey jet stream becomes a beautiful blue cloud of smoke.What are they trying to tell us?
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Beautiful
Blue
Clouds
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I have stood in a bar in Lambourn and been offered, in the space of five minutes, a poached salmon, a leg of a horse, a free trip to Chantilly, marriage, a large unsolicited loan, ten tips for a ten-horse race, two second-hand cars, a fight, and the copyright to a dying jockey's life story.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Fighting
Horse
Race
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You never see a pretty, unattached girl on a racecourse. But you often see positive gangs of rather unpretty ones. They are the owners or the owners' wives and they wear mink in all weathers and far too much make-up. For some odd reason, I can never work out why they always seem to be married to haulage contractors in the North, builders in the South and farmers in the West.
Jeffrey Bernard / Journalist
Girl
Weather
Work Out
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