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- Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me…
- As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more…
- There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of…
- I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in…
- When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined…
- Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about…
- I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
- What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal.…
- I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my…
- I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at…
- One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and…
- 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…
- That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training…
- With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our…
- A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- 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