Michael Bywater

(1953–2025) Writer

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Michael Bywater was a writer, best known for Lost Worlds.

Quick Facts About Michael Bywater

Born: May 11, 1953
Died: August 24, 2025
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Lost Worlds

About Michael Bywater

Michael Bywater was a British writer, columnist, cultural critic and broadcaster. He contributed to publications including The Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, and numerous other newspapers & magazines.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Michael Bywater

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the…

Michael Bywater

History

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Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence…

Michael Bywater

Book

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America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy…

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America

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“Melancholy (1) An excess of black bile, anatomized by Robert Burton, embraced by the swooning Romantics as evidence of their fine sensibilities,…

Michael Bywater

Death

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Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

Michael Bywater

Hero

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“Risk assessment is the new religion, the Big Babies'equivalent of the apotropaic ritual, the haruspices, the chicken entrails and the goat on…

Michael Bywater

Religion

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