When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.
Simon HoggartFish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior dรฉcor.
Simon HoggartRemember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.
Simon HoggartPoor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.
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