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Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

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Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

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Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

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All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

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Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

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While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.

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Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

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