Tom Paulin quotes
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“I am not very moved by historical apologies.”
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“I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.”
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“I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.”
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“All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.”
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“You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.”
-- Tom PaulinSource : "The sound and the fury" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2002.
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“In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.”
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“I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.”
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“I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.”
-- Tom PaulinSource : "Death to Jewish settlers, says anti-Zionist poet" by Sarah Hall, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2002.
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“I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.”
-- Tom PaulinSource : "Harvard bars Oxford poet" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2002.
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“I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.”
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“Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.”
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“Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing”
-- Tom PaulinSource : Tom Paulin (2011). “Seize the Fire: A Version of Aeschylus's 'Prometheus Bound'”, p.10, Faber & Faber
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