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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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History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the…
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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and…
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There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our…
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The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.…
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There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing…
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Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
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Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
— Arashi
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