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"This is supposed to be a "balanced" account of the Arab-Israeli conflict... something I've been wanting for about ten years, but was skeptical such a book was possible. It seems to be succeeding so far, although I'm only up to the 1920s and already statements from major figures on both sides have convincingly argued there is no possible solution to the conflict, due to the irreconcilability of their aims :/" — Dec 02, 2018 04:00PM
"This is supposed to be a "balanced" account of the Arab-Israeli conflict... something I've been wanting for about ten years, but was skeptical such a book was possible. It seems to be succeeding so far, although I'm only up to the 1920s and already statements from major figures on both sides have convincingly argued there is no possible solution to the conflict, due to the irreconcilability of their aims :/" — Dec 02, 2018 04:00PM
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“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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