Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.
From Howard Jacobson
Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.
Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.
Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep smiling - Fyodor.'
Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.
Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.
The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous.
For my own poor part, I go to great lengths to keep my nostrils sightly.
We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.
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