"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul"

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Source : "Emma Brockes interview: Roger McGough". www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2005.

Roger McGough

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“Won't cha...picture life as my wife, just think: Full length mink, fat X and O links, Bracelets to match, conversation was all that, Showed you the safe combinations and all that. Guess you could say you's the one I trusted... Who would ever think that you would spread like mustard?”
“You have to bring books to explain your work.”
“I have the ability to build myself up or break myself down. I stay positive. Strength comes from within.”
“Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.”
“I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.”
“It was important to me to change the narrative. It's important because it has an impact on everything you do. It doesn't matter who you are or what business you are running. You would always be seen as some African from the bush trying to run a bank. But we do these things successfully and we shouldn't be seen as second rate. That is the message that we are putting out there.”
“I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.”
“Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.100, New York Review of Books

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