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1 " All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it all, people were still just people. Angry, decent, captious, stupid, sometimes magnificent. "
― Dave Hutchinson , Europe at Midnight
2 " the moment you start producing something of interest – commercial interest – the committee starts to fill up with people you’ve never met before, and shortly after that you find yourself standing outside in the rain wondering what happened.” He "
3 " I still wasn’t sure whether England was in Europe or not; I had the impression that the English would have quite liked to be in Europe so long as they were running it, but weren’t particularly bothered otherwise. "
4 " God – religion of any kind – was still a difficult concept for me to process. I was still treating it like a nineteenth-century anthropologist visiting a lost tribe of South Sea Islanders. The best I was managing so far was a quietly horrified fascination. To "
5 " come out in a secluded spot. Just take some photos, have a quick shufti, come back. "
6 " The Community was dull. It was nice and it was quiet, if you lived in the right places, and there was full employment and nobody was starving and everybody was happy. It was no wonder people wanted to leave. "