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But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

John Lanchester

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

John Lanchester

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

John Lanchester

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

John Lanchester

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

John Lanchester

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

John Lanchester

John Lanchester

John Lanchester

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Born: February 25, 1962 (age 63)

Bio: John Henry Lanchester is a British journalist and novelist. He was born in Hamburg, brought up in Hong Kong and educated in England; between 1972 and 1980 at Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk, then at St John's College, Oxford.

Known for:

Capital (2012)
How to Speak Money (2014)
The Debt to Pleasure (1996)
Fragrant Harbour (2002)

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