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If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Cubes
Sugar
Tea
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Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Dies
Ifs
Should
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Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Audio
Plain
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Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.' All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Call Me
Dear
Said
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What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Facts
Fashion
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Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Drinking
Sober
Theory
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Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Drink
Facts
Popularity
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It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Blessing
Joy
Rose
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Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Get Away
Said
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When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Dictation
Particular
Hear
Obviously
Personalities
Speaking
They Say
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Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Intimate
Kind
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I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Awkward
Doe
Writing
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Because I'm a special gatekeeper. I'm the head gatekeeper. Because, although, as you can see, I'm only a head, I'm also the gatekeeper. Which makes me the head gatekeeper. Which makes me very special, don't you agree?
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Agree
Gatekeepers
Special
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As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as...
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Perfect
Real
Wish
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I always had a problem when I did the audio books myself because they weren't made to have me doing all the voices. And to hear established actors, and you think, 'Wow, that sounds like it's supposed to sound,' is great. They've got the right inflections, which is an enormous skill.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Audio
Enormous
Great Myself Me
Great Myself Always
Established
Skill
Voices
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Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's because they're actually simpler than you think them to be. Things are never as difficult and complicated as folk believe. You'd be surprised just how straightforward and obvious things really are. The secret is in knowing how to look at them the right way.
Robert Rankin / Novelist
Believe
Knowing
Thinking
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