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13 quotes by Max Hastings

Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL, FRHistS (/ˈheɪstɪŋz/; born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. His parents were Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and war correspondent, and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.
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There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to... →

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A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

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I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

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I would have been a disastrous soldier.

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People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

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When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

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I'm a passionate monarchist.

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I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

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It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

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We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

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I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God... →

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It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if... →

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Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant... →

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