Normally, words are sentfrom the brain towards the mouth, and somewhere along the line you take a moment to checkthem, see that they are actually the ones you ordered and that they’re nicely wrapped, beforeyou bundle them on their way towards your palate and out into the fresh air. But when you’re caught up in the flow of things, the checking part of your mind can falldown on the job. Hugh Laurie
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  3. No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake.... - Alexander Trocchi
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More Quotes By Hugh Laurie
  1. I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.
  2. I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Obviously, sitting was one of the things you...
  3. This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.
  4. We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Then they want to eat cornflakes and sleep for a while, and then they want to have sex with...
  5. It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in...
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