Max Hastings quotes
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“As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.”
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“I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.”
-- Max HastingsSource : "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
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“When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.”
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“We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.”
-- Max HastingsSource : "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
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“People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.”
-- Max HastingsSource : "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
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“It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.”
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“There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.”
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“Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'”
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“A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.”
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“I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.”
-- Max HastingsSource : "The view from Hastings". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
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“The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.”
-- Max HastingsSource : Max Hastings (2008). “Retribution”, p.12, Vintage
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“If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.”
-- Max HastingsSource : "The Princess and the Press". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. November 16, 1997.
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“You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.”
-- Max Hastings
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