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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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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
— Louis Kronenberger
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom…
— Terry Eagleton
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Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism…
— Camille Paglia
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To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism…
— Bob Black
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Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
— Rick Moody
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Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative…
— Herbert Marcuse
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The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
— Simon Schama
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We wouldn't be here if it weren't for psychedelic drugs. In terms of the role of psilocybin in human evolution on the…
— Terence Smith
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