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Andrew O'Hagan

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As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing. - Andrew O'Hagan
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Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did. - Andrew O'Hagan
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'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted. - Andrew O'Hagan
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A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. - Andrew O'Hagan
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You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity. - Andrew O'Hagan
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Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence. - Andrew O'Hagan
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Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before. - Andrew O'Hagan
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A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast. - Andrew O'Hagan
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There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe? - Andrew O'Hagan
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The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good. - Andrew O'Hagan
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I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves. - Andrew O'Hagan
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Interviewing is not a democratic art. - Andrew O'Hagan
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I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared. - Andrew O'Hagan
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When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure. - Andrew O'Hagan
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I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly people who looked after blind ex-servicemen. - Andrew O'Hagan
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I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work. - Andrew O'Hagan
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