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- As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in…
- Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe…
- I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id…
- The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
- Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some…
- I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of…
- I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet:…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams