"There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud."

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I do feel like a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say 'I'm a writer', 'I'm an artist'. Too much is made of the role and not enough of the work. We are such a celebrity-driven age and a status-driven age, that the status becomes more important than the actual work.

— Richard Flanagan