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So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

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Paul Fussell

Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. . . . To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.

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The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

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Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't hold the attention of a dinner table for thirty seconds, even with a dirty joke.

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The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

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The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

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And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

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