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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

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The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.

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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 21st, 1948

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