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The writing of history, Voltaire believed, should be one form of battle in the age-old war for our intellectual emancipation. Too often, however, history is written and marketed in such a way as to be anything but liberating. The effect is
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“Nuns didn’t age in human years,”
― Dead Man's Sins
― Dead Man's Sins

“The darkness keeps its own counsel.”
― The Chain
― The Chain

“Is neamhbhuan cogadh na gcarad; má bhíonn sé crua, ní bhíonn sé fada,”
― The Cold Cold Ground
― The Cold Cold Ground

“My point is, I’m a fan of music, but jazz isn’t music. Jazz is some cockwomble in a beret, wanking himself off with a saxophone.”“Sax-a-phobic, are we?”“Don’t come that with me, Clarence from the E Street Band is a legend, but he’s not doing a twenty-minute atonal arse-clenching solo that sounds like someone sodomising a goose.”
― Angels in the Moonlight
― Angels in the Moonlight

“In Bunny’s opinion, good pubs weren’t built, they were carefully grown over time. No two were the same, and if they were, then they weren’t proper pubs to begin with.”
― Disaster Inc
― Disaster Inc

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