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Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
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When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen…
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
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There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the…
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience…
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Beneath every history, another history.
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Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
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I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that…
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing…
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Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on…
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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although…
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Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
— Jimmy Cannon
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Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
— John Dryden
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.
— Adrian Rogers
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Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that…
— Winston Churchill
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He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of…
— Mark Twain
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a…
— Voltaire
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As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees…
— Hilary Mantel
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