Tom Paulin Quotes

• I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

  Tom Paulin

  Thinking, Historical, Consciousness

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• I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

  Tom Paulin

  Thinking, Ideas, Flying

  "Literature's loose cannon" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2002.

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• I am not very moved by historical apologies.

  Tom Paulin

  Apology, Historical, Moved

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• Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

  Tom Paulin

  Israel, Support, Zionist

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• A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

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  Class, Creative, Culture

  "The vernacular city" by Tom Paulin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2002.

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• Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing

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  Fire, Ideas, Tears

  Tom Paulin (2011). “Seize the Fire: A Version of Aeschylus's 'Prometheus Bound'”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

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  Writing, Wish, Way

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• All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

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  Book, Worry, Hobbies

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• In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.

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  Responsibility, Israel, Views

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• Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

  Tom Paulin

  London, Facts, Submission

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• I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

  Tom Paulin

  Kind

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• I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

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  Country, Thinking, People

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• I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

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  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

  Tom Paulin

  Thinking, Facts, Boost

  "Death to Jewish settlers, says anti-Zionist poet" by Sarah Hall, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2002.

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• Ulysses is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.

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  Lying, Racism, Challenges

  "Not one of us" by Tom Paulin, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2000.

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• I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.

  Tom Paulin

  Israel

  "Harvard bars Oxford poet" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2002.

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• You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.

  Tom Paulin

  Zionist

  "The sound and the fury" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2002.

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