James Lasdun quotes
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“There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.”
-- James LasdunSource : James Lasdun (2013). “Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked”, p.196, Macmillan
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“I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.”
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“To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me is how human and interesting they are. I happen to be drawn to characters who operate under intense internal pressure, which often comes from some deep psychological conflict.”
-- James LasdunSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people will root, has never had anything to do with why I read or write fiction. As long as the writing and story remain alive, intense, invigorating, provoking, the characters can be as demonic or saintly as the author wants.”
-- James LasdunSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of Jewish descent in England always carried a vague sense of being foreign, while not being a practicing Jew made it hard to think of myself as fully Jewish either. So living here in a way just clarifies that terminal outsider position - makes it somehow official, which I like.”
-- James LasdunSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”
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“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
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“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
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“I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.”
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“I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.”
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