“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Essays of Three Decades
― Essays of Three Decades
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