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“Es lo que le pasa a la mayoría de los liberales, se dijo Wil­liam, por eso son incapaces de gestionar el poder, por eso sus par­tidos políticos son un desastre: no comprenden su verdadera natu­raleza, sus verdaderas aspiraciones. ¡La certeza, el sentimiento, la certeza y el sentimiento, la certeza y el sentimiento, la certeza, natu­raleza, sus verdaderas aspiraciones! Los supera. Por eso se concentran tanto en los sentimientos y en hacerse los dolidos, en ponerles nombres a las co­sas, en la corrección, porque no tienen estómago para la desigual­dad de la que dependen. Y ahora, en el norte de Inglaterra, igual que en Kansas o en Illinois, la gente vota en contra de sus propios intereses, porque detesta la cultura, que los ve como necesitados, odia a las élites solidarias, que pretenden decirles qué es lo que les conviene. En el mundo moderno —se dijo William, a la gente no le importa que la exploten, siempre que pueda elegirlo por sí misma.”

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“Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie, the Friday 13th Series, or Movies Starring John Travolta Before Pulp Fiction - it is almost impossible to choose a single film for worst movie of all time. But strangely, I do have a nomination and I believe it is actually the worst movie ever made. It is Boxing Helena. The director is David Lynch's daughter, and the film comes with the almost insane-making faults that the family connection might imply.”

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“I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich person looks like. And I knew that Hillary Clinton would annoy voters in their tens of millions, because she basically sucked at communicating with poor people and seemed like a person who'd been powerful and rich for decades. She was a disastrous candidate. I mean, she was up against a psychopath and she still lost. The country's thinking was beyond her, literally.”

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“I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are. My writers are in the thick of it and they seek the truth, rather than embody it, and sometimes they find truths that don't sit palatably or easily together. That's life. That's personality. And that's writing.”

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“My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.”

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“The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.”

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