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I’ve asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow.

Iain Banks

The top 10% own 44% of everything. If they owned and earned everything, they’d contribute 100% of Treasury income, and no doubt protest yet louder at the nation of dependents they carry on their backs.

Polly Toynbee

The man admits putting poison in his wife’s water but denies trying to kill her. He told police he had been trying to make her a little unwell to ease her obsessional interest in planning pilgrimages and listening to the Catholic radio station Radio Maria.

Lizzy Davies

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

André Gide

No opposition must be taken to heart. Our enemies often help us more than our friends. Besides, a head-wind is better than no wind. Who ever got anywhere in a dead calm?

Amelia E. Barr

Cold focuses the mind. I did the best work I’ve ever done in my parents’ unheated thatched cottage when I was revising for my finals, crouched over an electric fan heater wearing about 10 jumpers. When you are that uncomfortable you don’t mess about.