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- Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only…
- Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand -…
- The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower.…
- The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like…
- I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in…
- I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
- Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
- I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that…
- It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play…
- Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via…
- What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the…
- You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like…
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