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Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war is genocidal - Israel connives in Armenian genocide denial.

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The obligation to remember is inscribed on every Holocaust memorial, but even the words 'Never Forget' become irksome eventually.

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It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.

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Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.

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The novel is a thing of irony and ambiguity. That's at the heart of 'J', a world that has stopped arguing with itself. We have to keep our equilibrium of hate, which is argument. But on the Internet, you find a unanimity of response, and in 'J,' there's a fear of that, that discourse becomes a statement of political or ideological belief.

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You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.

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Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a university that isn't a university but an ideological prison camp and indoctrination centre.

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Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.

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Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.

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The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: August 25th, 1942

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