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— James Buchan"The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation."
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
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