"There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us."

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All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.

— Storm Jameson