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Kate Atkinson
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Behind the Scenes at the
But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.
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Joel Salatin
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Folks, This Ain't Normal: A
Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive."
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Iain Pears
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The Dream of Scipio
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.
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Iain Pears
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.
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Iain Pears
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The Dream of Scipio
When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.
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Iain Pears
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The Dream of Scipio
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.
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Gregory Maguire
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Out of Oz
Of course. You get everything from books.
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David G. McAfee
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Disproving Christianity and
If we presuppose that Jesus and God are one-as many {but not all} Christians do-then we can also infer that Jesus Christ was omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent, and it is with this that the idea of sacrifice is lost. The martyrdom was premeditated on the part of the Creator, and Jesus was resurrected afterward-showing that the act of 'death' was not an inconvenience for the immortal 'man' who was said to have known that he would be resurrected.
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Joanne Harris
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Chocolat
Knowledge is currency here....
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Joanne Harris
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The Gospel of Loki
The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.
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Joanne Harris
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Runemarks
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
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Jeanette Winterson
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Very often history is a means of denying the past. Denying the past is to refuse to recognise its integrity. To fit it, force it, function it, to suck out the spirit until it looks the way you think it should. We are all historians in our small way.
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