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No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there than an artist does. And no traveller ever gets to a more wonderful place.

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There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

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Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

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Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.

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The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous.

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For my own poor part, I go to great lengths to keep my nostrils sightly.

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We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.

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The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.

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Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.

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Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour Party, write articles attacking the privileged, give the money you spend on opera tickets to homeless charities, and vow never to go to anything that can be considered elitist again.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: August 25th, 1942

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