Fall Quote by Simon Winchester

“The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre, done…

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My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be…

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“or of oats (“ a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people”),”

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To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in…

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I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That…

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We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable.…

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“The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly rate. To…

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The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned…

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“and his youngest sister, Henrietta, lived to a great age, also beside the sea, with a vast collection of cats—having previously traveled around England…

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I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human…

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The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need…

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“Think simple, Murray kept insisting: Think simple.”

— Simon Winchester