Top 35 Andrew O'Hagan Quotes (2024 Update)

Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “Always trust strangers, it’s the people you know that let you down.”

1. “Always trust strangers, it’s the people you know that let you down.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.”

2. “A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.”

3. “Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.”

4. “The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn’t quite there before.”

5. “Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn’t quite there before.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.”

6. “The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “It’s not a crime not to know yourself. It’s not a crime to send life away. It’s just a shame.”

7. “It’s not a crime not to know yourself. It’s not a crime to send life away. It’s just a shame.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.”

8. “They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.”

9. “Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “He knew nothing about policy and taxes or what makes a people, and now, God help him, he was like those kids who think their country is Google. ‘You’re just not going deep enough,’ Luke said. ‘Money has imploded. Religion has gone mad. Privacy is disappearing. The ice-cap is melting and children are starving to death. And you want to sing an old song about national togetherness.”

10. “He knew nothing about policy and taxes or what makes a people, and now, God help him, he was like those kids who think their country is Google. ‘You’re just not going deep enough,’ Luke said. ‘Money has imploded. Religion has gone mad. Privacy is disappearing. The ice-cap is melting and children are starving to death. And you want to sing an old song about national togetherness.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp.”

11. “Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.”

12. “Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.”

13. “A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.”

14. “I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “Interviewing is not a democratic art.”

15. “Interviewing is not a democratic art.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “I was 10 when I realised I couldn’t stand football. I’d tried, obviously, before this – no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.”

16. “I was 10 when I realised I couldn’t stand football. I’d tried, obviously, before this – no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don’t require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.”

17. “As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don’t require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “Be near me when my light is low and be near me when my heart is sick...”

18. “Be near me when my light is low and be near me when my heart is sick...”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “I’ve been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.”

19. “I’ve been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “MEMORY IS A KIND of friendship, a friendship with the more necessary parts of oneself. How often do we reach for the past’s genial knowledge to meet the unknowables of the present, asking once again that the anterior world might blossom into life and colour the current day? In this at least I cannot be alone.”

20. “MEMORY IS A KIND of friendship, a friendship with the more necessary parts of oneself. How often do we reach for the past’s genial knowledge to meet the unknowables of the present, asking once again that the anterior world might blossom into life and colour the current day? In this at least I cannot be alone.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.”

21. “As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “The summer remembers nothing of the winter and nature is a kind of amnesia.”

22. “The summer remembers nothing of the winter and nature is a kind of amnesia.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “You’re just America-on-ice.”

23. “You’re just America-on-ice.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “I had once asked him if he felt happy hiding in the internet and he said yes, it was his home. On a good day it is the bright field that contains all souls but on a bad day it is the final darkness, where misery is gapingly exposed.”

24. “I had once asked him if he felt happy hiding in the internet and he said yes, it was his home. On a good day it is the bright field that contains all souls but on a bad day it is the final darkness, where misery is gapingly exposed.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “I wasn’t like other boys. At any rate, I wasn’t like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.”

25. “I wasn’t like other boys. At any rate, I wasn’t like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “The colour red doesn’t actually exist,’ she said. ‘It only exists as an idea in your head. Always remember that. You create it yourself when your imagination meets the light.”

26. “The colour red doesn’t actually exist,’ she said. ‘It only exists as an idea in your head. Always remember that. You create it yourself when your imagination meets the light.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I’d come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.”

27. “Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I’d come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.”

28. “We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “The water was cold but it soon warms up when the boys are made of sunshine.”

29. “The water was cold but it soon warms up when the boys are made of sunshine.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “You are a human being. And that’s and unstable condition that ends badly for all of us.”

30. “You are a human being. And that’s and unstable condition that ends badly for all of us.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “The thing we know is that humanity has a hundred per cent mortality rate. We all die. But the facts don’t matter – we can’t bear to lose the people we love, and it doesn’t quite register about the billions who die, or even about our own coming deaths. We don’t experience our own death the way we experience the deaths of those we love.”

31. “The thing we know is that humanity has a hundred per cent mortality rate. We all die. But the facts don’t matter – we can’t bear to lose the people we love, and it doesn’t quite register about the billions who die, or even about our own coming deaths. We don’t experience our own death the way we experience the deaths of those we love.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “Tully Dawson made himself new to the world, and ripe for the glories of that summer, by showing he was unlike his father.”

32. “Tully Dawson made himself new to the world, and ripe for the glories of that summer, by showing he was unlike his father.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “It was like a veil had fallen, and all his carnal energy and all his native certainty – everything strong in him – was now devoted to the matter of his own destruction.”

33. “It was like a veil had fallen, and all his carnal energy and all his native certainty – everything strong in him – was now devoted to the matter of his own destruction.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “Being young is a kind of warfare in which the great enemy is experience.”

34. “Being young is a kind of warfare in which the great enemy is experience.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “The past isn’t really the past,” Tully said. “It’s just music, books, and films.”

35. “The past isn’t really the past,” Tully said. “It’s just music, books, and films.”

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Andrew O'Hagan Quote: “If being young is a crime scene,” I said, “the evidence from that night is everywhere.”

36. “If being young is a crime scene,” I said, “the evidence from that night is everywhere.”

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