Tom Paulin Quotes

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• I am not very moved by historical apologies.
• Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.
• Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.
• I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.
• I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.
• I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.
• I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to…
• In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's…
• You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.
• All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.
• I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
• I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.
• I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to…
• I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things…
• If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost impossible to reach…
• I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did…
• Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many…
• Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts…
• Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently…
• A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

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