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1. "A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
2. "Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
3. "I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
4. "A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
5. "As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
6. "In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
7. "Interviewing is not a democratic art." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
8. "'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
9. "The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
10. "I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
11. "I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
12. "Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
13. "Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
14. "You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
15. "A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it." ~ Andrew O'Hagan
16. "As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing." ~ Andrew O'Hagan

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