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'Legality' is a mad phrase to use when it comes to the founding of nations. Australia was founded on illegality. For the Americans to go in and dispossess the American Indians was illegal.

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People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.

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One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell jokes against ourselves - before anyone else gets to do it.

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I've always felt that desire. To get a woman to throw back her head in laughter is a hot thing.

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The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house books. Only later on could I write what I knew I was best at writing about.

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Trump can be damned to all hell with his enclosed little world in which no thought is possible. But it's the encouraging of half the people of America and many more besides to hate words, hate what words can do, hate thought, hate the liberal, the sophisticated, the metropolitan. It's anger-making.

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There mustn't be a moment when we turn on the TV and think, 'There's Trump in the White House' - that must never feel normal.

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I wouldn't suppose for one moment that there's a single one of Trump's voters that would be anything but confirmed in their beliefs.

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I think one of the main reasons I write is to do better than ranting. The ranting is the opinion, and the writing is not the opinion. I always say that people's opinions are the worst things about them. The words demand a dignity.

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I've never owned a T-shirt. I don't like vests or sweaters or cardies with zips. I like a proper shirt with a collar. There's nothing else that I think I look nice in. I don't think there's anything else that other men look nice in, to be honest. Things with words on! Can you imagine? On grown-ups! Words are to make books with.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: August 25th, 1942

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