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"It is the fact that the longing for freedom is not just embedded in every true souls heart."
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Bernard LevinBut once upon a time, we could play shove hapenny, and read a penny dr — Bernard Levin
"But once upon a time, we could play shove hapenny, and read a penny dreadful, and sing a song of sixpence, and take the Kings shilling; and once upon a time even further in the past, five sparrows could be bought for two farthings, and yet not be forgotten. Somehow, the transaction would not have had the same effect if the sparrows had been sold for two pee."
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Henry Bernard Levin was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarship to the independent school Christ's Hospital and went on to the London School of Economics, graduating in 1952. After a short spell in a lowly job at the BBC selecting press cuttings for use in progr
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"Courageous, self-willed and frantically energetic, Levin holds strong views which he enunciates with unambiguous force."
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"But it is silly to brand liquor as the cause of alcoholic self-destruction, when far more deep-rooted psychological problems are responsible, with drink (and now, of course, drugs) being only the means."
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"When he wrote that 1,500-word piece for The Times using just one full-stop, it wasnt to show off his command of syntax and semi-colons (well, maybe it was a little), but because thats how his brain worked: marshalling metaphors, highly selective facts, quixotic asides and fearless insults into a single, uninterruptible narrative that rolled on and on rather like his beloved Wagners operas, but with considerably more jokes."
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"I became a journalist by accident, and stayed one. Just as well; I have no other talent whatever, even in the most modest and rudimentary form. I cant paint or compose or write novels; I couldnt be a businessman or financier; I would be impossible as a teacher and a disaster as an actor."
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"Stealthily the computer advanced, vanguard of the technological revolution, hailed as the cure for all mankinds ills and denounced as the baleful force which would first enslave and then destroy us all."
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