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Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere ... - Pg. 82
But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once and to switch between them as the need arises;
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.
Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.
The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind.
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words together.
And the great thing about money is that it doesn't matter when you harvest it. It's an all-year crop.
The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next.
That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
A crock of shit, Rick had called it. But actually this was worse. Shit, to quote Gore Vidal, has its own integrity. This was a crock of nothing.
But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.
A voice came out of the darkness.
'Don't make it so wide. It's not a grave. You're making work for yourself.
'Don't make it so wide. It's not a grave. You're making work for yourself.
The art of life is to deal with one's problems as they arise; rather than destoy your spirit by worrying about them too far in advance.
Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
I lay aside the papers. Really, it is beyond hypocrisy; it is beyond even lying: it has become a psychosis.
History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?
The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.
To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.
In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.
[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.
The kulaks were contagious. Their souls were contagious. They carried the spores of counter-revolution.
From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.
A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -
An excess of simplicity, after all, was just another form of ostentation, and pride in one's humility a sin.
Their souls were contagious ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to while someone you did was tantalisingly in view.
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal.
It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ...
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason
Where was the respect? The boys all looked like girls and the girls all looked like whores. Clearly, the country was already halfway in the shit.
the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind.
Bachelors of forty are society's stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of;
Often the most powerful men in a state can pass down a street unrecognized, while the most famous bask in feted impotence
One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.
In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
What fascinates people isn't policy- who cares about policy? What fascinates people is always people- the detail of another person's life.