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they are. Ronan Bennett’s novel Havoc in its Third Year is a masterpiece about this emotion. Everything is understated – ‘normal’. It is about a recusant Catholic family being hounded by keen Protestants in the seventeenth century. A
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“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
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“Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
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“Can you imagine us tolerating any form of rival intelligence on earth, no matter how it got here? Why, we can’t even tolerate anything but the narrowest differences of views within our own race. No,’ he shook his head, ‘no, I’m afraid Bocker’s idea of fraternization never had the chance of a flea in a furnace.”
― The Kraken Wakes
― The Kraken Wakes
“Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness...”
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Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness...”
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