Simon Winchester Quotes

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• Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one…
• The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to…
• I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is…
• Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a…
• I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.
• I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
• The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from…
• Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is…
• Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful…
• All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times…
• Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United…
• To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on…

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