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I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Affairs Also Ambition Dismay Glued Growing Historical Human Human Affairs International Labour New Nothing Owe Political Politicians Represent Satirical Sense Shape Team Themselves Who

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Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: America Barack Change Democracy England Events Extent How Manifestation Need Obama Show Victory Washington Which Works

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The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Cards Celebrity Class Code Credit Credit Cards Disenchantment Dreams England English English People Every Good Grandparents Granted Had Happy Informs Jobs Never Part People Poverty Service Story Take Whose Wins Working Working Class

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The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Aim Anything Become Best Beyond Class England Habits Middle Middle Class Other Out People Possible Room Society Than Themselves Today Up Version Vision Waiting Way Who Working Working Class

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When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if they knew nothing of ordinary life and its political mysteries.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: About Beings Business Celestial Higher Knew Life Mysteries Nothing Ordinary Ordinary Life Place Political Theatre Thought Very Where Young

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The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Britain Characters Come Country Genuine Ideal Me More Near One Country Place Than

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When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Back Basic Character Childhood Coast Devotion Human Human Nature Idea Look National Nature Recall Unknowable Weather

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As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: About America Care Carelessness Writer I Care

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I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Acting Arts Asked Been Believe Come Course Job Like Me Most Music Other Painting Pattern Structure Terms Which

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The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Idea Life Me More Novels People Should Simply Sympathetic Than

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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