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John Lanchester Quotes

Is it OK to admit to being slightly obsessed with the TV programme 'Great British Menu?'

John Lanchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: February 25, 1962

Topics

Great Admit Menu British Being OK

I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in the hollow flux of desperation and incipient terror.

Style Consistency Need Desperation

How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.

Work Window Book Hotel Envy Look

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

Meredith Whitney

Past Debt Real Years Nirvana Been

To the extent the dollar gains strength relative to other currencies, assets priced in those other currencies would become cheaper on a dollar basis.

Strength Become Dollar Would Cheaper

Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

Freedom People Revolution Creating

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

Life Children Art Bath Bubble Awe

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Love Care More Hatred Than Does

Dream big, but don't be upset if it doesn't happen.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Dream Upset Happen Big

Now I have a very good life and I am very proud of my work.

Michael Nyqvist

Life Work Good I Am Proud Good Life

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

Work Best People City Control Book

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

Child Wish I Wish Naive Interior

My colleagues and I met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli military and security officials to discuss our votes against the terrible Iran deal and to reaffirm our commitment to our longstanding alliance.

Commitment Colleagues Security Prime

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