The Man Booker does so much horse trading, has so many arguments, and people talk complete nonsense about it and occasionally choose ridiculously bad books for no good reason, but all of that is done behind closed doors so you never see it.

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Talk of immediate membership is nonsense: even Turkey's friends know it will take at least ten years.

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To me, all of this talk was quite a lot of nonsense.

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In other words any talk of acting alone is a nonsense.

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Mr Chirac rejected the charges on Friday, telling reporters: "When I hear talk of French economic protectionism, for me that is complete nonsense".

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