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“It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.”

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This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

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The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.

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“I recited and followed this song-of-the-places-in-between as a map.”

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I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.

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“Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever”

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If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.

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“My feet beat out a steady muffled rhythm. My thoughts participated in each step, never getting ahead of me.”

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I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about…

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