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(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking…
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The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as…
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In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to…
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The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters
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We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish…
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The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make…
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One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty…
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We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history…
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Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.
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If there are no books. There is no civilization.
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Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as…
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How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
— Karl Kraus
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How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned…
— Andrew Marvell
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Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.
— Jim Gerlach
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We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the…
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Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.
— Edmund Waller
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A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms,…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as…
— Thomas Cahill
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering…
— William Golding
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So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this…
— Henry Vaughan
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Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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