- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Japanese
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- Nov 07, 2020
To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift Jews, slacker Japanese and so on.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 books.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020