Higher Instincts Quotes by Andrew O'Hagan

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• We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.
• Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.
• My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend…
• Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.
• The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.
• The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the…
• A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
• Interviewing is not a democratic art.
• Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while…
• Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher,…
• Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our…
• I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is…

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