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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last…
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives…
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its…
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The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
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Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
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Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
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It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?
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London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh…
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But…
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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which…
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The world is governed by opinion.
— Thomas Hobbes
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As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an…
— Peter Ackroyd
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A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles…
— Nichiren
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
— Jose Saramago
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as…
— Daniel Webster
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if…
— Walter Kaufmann
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