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“The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with th...”
“Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.”
“Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell...”
“History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.”
“you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, a distillation of rumor, or, as Napoleon said, a set of lies generally agreed upon”
“Even the poorest pit houses usually possess a state-sponsored Volkempfanger VE301, a mass-produced radio stamped with an eagle and a swastika, incapable of shortwave, marked only for German frequen...”
“Their eyes locked.They could see into each other's souls. This was why she had been bored.”
“She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness.”
“You must regard this deviation from your plan as part of the adventure that you sought when you decided to embark on it in the first place...Absence of certainty is its essence. People...who choose...”
“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.”
“He found Granny on the porch, asleep. Her chin sat on her chest, rising and falling with her breath. He gathered her up in his arms, light as a girl, and carried her inside to her room. He covered ...”
“It was a hymn with the force of a march, a march with the majesty of a hymn. It was the song of soldiers bearing sacred banners and of priests carrying swords. It was an anthem to the sanctity of s...”
“The virtuous are among the the weakest and quickest to sin”
“when you walk the path of revenge, know that someone will always follow your trail”
“If the gods chose Sextus as King of Rome, the worst possible evil will befall it”
“Discourses, which are mostly wrapped in spurious religious and patriotic ideologies that ignite the enthusiasm of the ignorant masses”
“In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).”
“Lady's mouth tasted like blood and iron all the time now. It tasted like defeat.”
“The typewriter is indeed my passport into a world otherwise barred to me and my kind.”
“I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book,...”
