"To try to expunge an individual's history is……" — Helen Dunmore
"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."
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38 Quotes by Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore has 38 quotes on this site.
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Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
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Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want…
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A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
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As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told…
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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a…
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However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see…
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I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A…
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I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
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I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in…
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I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the…
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I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and…
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I was always influenced by language.
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More Expunge Quotes
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There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not…
— Art Spiegelman
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Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.
— Unknown Author
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is…
— Victor Hugo
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I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must -…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not…
— Larry Kramer
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I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not…
— Samuel Johnson
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There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in…
— Marcel Proust
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal…
— Pat Robertson
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