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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to…
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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,…
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The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
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My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.
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Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.
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Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself.…
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Good reading makes for damn hard writing.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.
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Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish…
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I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage…
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I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
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