"The history of ideas is littered with the……" — Giles Foden

"The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture."

— Giles Foden

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15 Quotes by Giles Foden

Giles Foden has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit…
From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as…
My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been…
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph…
I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell…
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just…
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio…
Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

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I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think… — Christian Bale
One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to… — Annie Besant
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. — Brian Aldiss
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. — Louis Lecoin
If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses — Joseph Goebbels
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try… — Erica Jong
Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate. — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do.… — Richard Dawkins
The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do… — Francois Mauriac
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against… — Edward Dahlberg
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want… — Helen Dunmore

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