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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

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The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.

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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.

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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

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When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

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I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: October 25th, 1975

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