The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it … - Shirley Williams

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Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

Shirley Williams

The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

Danger, Disillusion, Men, Old, Parties, Party

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The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

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No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

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We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

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