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.
Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I w… - Andrew O'Hagan
Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I w…
- Andrew O'Hagan
I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, a… - Andrew O'Hagan
I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, a…
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 Se… - Andrew O'Hagan
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 Se…
'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted. - Andrew O'Hagan
'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.
Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself. - Andrew O'Hagan
Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.
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… - Andrew O'Hagan
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…
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. - Andrew O'Hagan
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time. - Andrew O'Hagan
We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.
Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp - Andrew O'Hagan
Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp
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