Max Hastings Quotes
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I would have been a disastrous soldier.
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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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If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.
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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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It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.
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The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.
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I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.
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You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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