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Michael Bywater Quotes:

Michael Bywater quotes

Ocupation: Writer

Life: b. May 11, 1953

Birthday: May 11

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One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

source: - "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" by Michael Bywater, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2004.

Topics: Writing, History, People

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Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.

Topics: Book, Feet, Embarrassing, Shuffle

America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?

Topics: Beer, Night, Ideas, Nightclubs

Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

Topics: Hero, Should, Mines

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