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I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

Paul Johnson

Boys, Editors, Littles

If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.

Paul Johnson

Hunting, Delight, Want

1996 To Hell With Picasso, and Other Essays.

I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie.

Paul Johnson

New York, Book, Writing

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

Paul Johnson

Dog, Europe, Chinese

Paul Johnson (1991). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties”, HarperCollins Publishers

It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections

Paul Johnson

Running, America, Leader

Paul Johnson (1991). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties”, HarperCollins Publishers