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I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

~George Macdonald Fraser

Topics: Because Deny History Like Little People Picture Present Think Who Will Would I Think

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Tony Blair is not just the worst prime minister we've ever had, but by far the worst prime minister we've ever had. It makes my blood boil to think of the British soldiers who've died for that little liar.

~George Macdonald Fraser

Topics: Blair Blood Boil British Died Ever Far Had Just Liar Little Makes Minister Prime Prime Minister Soldiers Think Tony Tony Blair Worst

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Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.

~George Macdonald Fraser

Topics: About Analysis Correctness Denial Honest Jargon Political Political Correctness Seldom Stands Up Which

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I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.

~George Macdonald Fraser

Topics: Admission Alec Because Devil Doing Favourite He His Inventions Loathe Minister Office Own Parties Political Political Parties Prime Prime Minister Regard Right Sir Spent Thing Which Without Year

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It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

~George Macdonald Fraser

Topics: Act Authors Creative Diploma Dying Get Judgment Just May Other Own Punctuation Rather Resist Some Than Trust Urge Who Zealous

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I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

~George Macdonald Fraser

Topics: Believe Cynic Humanity Rather Suppose

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What is overlooked is the astonishing amount of history Hollywood has got right... For better or worse, nothing has been more influential in shaping our visions of the past than the commercial cinema.

~George Macdonald Fraser

Topics: Amount Astonishing Been Better Cinema Commercial Got History Hollywood Influential More Nothing Our Overlooked Past Right Shaping Than Visions Worse

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Author

Born: April 2nd, 1925

Died: January 2nd, 2008

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