Michael Bywater Quotes

• One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

  Michael Bywater

  Writing, History, People

  "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" by Michael Bywater, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2004.

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• America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?

  Michael Bywater

  Beer, Night, Ideas

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• Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

  Michael Bywater

  Hero, Should, Mines

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• Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.

  Michael Bywater

  Book, Feet, Embarrassing

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