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It's a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride where we don't.

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The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.

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It's not only teenagers who think they look good in pre-holed jeans, and I doubt it's only the superannuated who are amused by Ant and Dec.

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Alarm bells ring when a politician stands haughty upon his honour.

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Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.

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Alone of prejudices, anti-Zionism is sacrosanct. How very dare we distinguish the motivation of one sort from another? Or question, in any instance, an anti-Zionist's good faith? In fact, what determines whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic is the nature of it.

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The Stop The War Coalition is a sort of home to Jew-haters because its hate music about Israel is so catchy.

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I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.

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Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

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Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: August 25th, 1942

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