"For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal."

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I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.

— Graham Swift