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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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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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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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"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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"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."
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"I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums."
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"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."
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"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."
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"The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide."
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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"I was always the class clown."
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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
American
"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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"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."
Life
"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."
Time
"The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia."
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"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
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"The fact is that I loved being in England."
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"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."
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