Simon Hoggart (Simon David Hoggart) Quotes
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.
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Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
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The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Our lives will be measured by what we do for others.
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Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
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No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the world's disinherited is becoming the spiritual misery of the world's elect. Superior privileges of any sort now carry with them the sense of shame.
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Who people like is their own business. It don't concern me. I know what I do - and I'm having a lot of fun with the women that I'm with.
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If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
