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• Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
• When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen…
• Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
• There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the…
• A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
• 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…
• Beneath every history, another history.
• Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
• I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that…
• He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing…
• Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
• 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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