John Gimlette Quotes - Page 2

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• What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in an Irish pub in Dublin. And lovely to think this literary network - or rather network of readers - is well spread out.

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  Thinking, Fire, Iraq

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• In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised, you are not surprised if violence follows. Hopefully it won't, but you are not surprised.

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  Talking, Civilization, Voice

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• If you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting at each other in an argument, violence is not going to follow. That would be just so far removed.

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  Country, People, Morocco

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• This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.

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  Frustration, Able, West

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• I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

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  Phones, Views, People

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• I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who are very remote - I'm thinking of Newfoundland - feel very connected though the radio.

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  Successful, Thinking, America

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• Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

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  Community, Radio, Way

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• There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling of remoteness at all, ever. And that's reflected in the way our media works, and so on.

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  Media, Feelings, Way

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• American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.

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  Writing, Healthy, Demand

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• India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

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  Strong, Father, Blood

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• I have to be careful not to visit one place right after the other and write one book after the other. Because I fear writing the same book all over again. That's why I am taking a break and doing something different this time.

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  Book, Writing, Different

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• I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.

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  Regimes, Castro, Totalitarian Regimes

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• I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to tell their story about the revolution through the eyes of musicians, in fact. The '59 Revolution. And what has happened to them since. It's very much a Cuban story. They haven't fared too well.

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  Nice, Eye, Ideas

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• Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.

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  War, People, Different

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• Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.

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  Italian, Blood, America

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• Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it's fantastic - but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city.

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  Thinking, Cities, Buenos Aires

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• I'll always love Paraguay. It's this most exotic place configured out of the imagination, the whole country.Paraguay will always be a special place in my heart. I go back a long way. I first arrived as a refugee in 1982 from the Falklands War. So it was a safe haven then, and it has become something exotic since then. I feel like I'd like the dust to settle a little bit before going back.

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  Country, War, Heart

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• Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.

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  Jobs, Boss, Ambassadors

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• It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time in '82, that you are in a sort of wonderland. Nothing is quite right: the buildings, they've got their own architecture, their own language; and everything is just a little bit off key.

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  Keys, Borders, Wonderland

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• In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.

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  People, Tough, Environment

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• I am certainly very pro-Europe.

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  Europe

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• Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.

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  Vikings, Trails, Mines

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• I wouldn't like to see Cuba change in other ways. And the trouble is when Fidel [Castro] does go - I am sure he will at some stage. He will probably be replaced by some sort of Western capitalism, ultimately.

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  Doe, Cuba, Way

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• I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.

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  Real, Cuba, Culture

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• There are no young people who know how to debate, who know how to vote, and who know how to persuade people to vote. And you have seen this in Paraguay and they are reaping the harvest now of fifty years of dictatorship.

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  Years, People, Fifty

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