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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
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"No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner."
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"To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation."
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"If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections."
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"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."
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"Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid."
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"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about."
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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
Class
"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books."
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"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."
People
"The fact is that I loved being in England."
Being
"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right."
People
"I hate to be categorized."
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"But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off."
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"Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man."
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"I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer."
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