Simon Hoggart Quotes

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Mr Arbuthnot did not respond, but sat with a thin, weak smile, like winter sunshine upon a coffin lid.

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In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

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Peter Mandelson is someone who can skulk in broad daylight.

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Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.

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Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca.

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Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.

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Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

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The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

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Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.

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Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

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Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

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Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

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