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Jonathan Coe

"I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!"

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"I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!"

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Donna Grant

"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

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Donna Grant

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

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Donna Grant

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

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Donna Grant

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

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Donna Grant

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

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Donna Grant

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

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Donna Grant

"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

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Donna Grant

"It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'. There may be those in Texas now who believe they can insulate their state-a state that had its own courageous revolution-from the news of evolution and from the writing in 1786 of a Constitution that refuses to mention religion except when demarcating and limiting its role in the public square. But we promise them today that they will join their fore-runners in the flat-earth community, and in the mad clerical clique of those who believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yes, they will be in schoolbooks-as a joke on the epic scale of William Jennings Bryan. We shall be fair, and take care to ensure that their tale is told."

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Donna Grant

"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."

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Donna Grant

"Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her pale face on cold paper; Mr. Morse had recently announced a way of transmitting messages down metal wires. Had you mentioned magic or Faerie to any of them, they would have smiled at you disdainfully, except, perhaps for Mr. Dickens, at the time a young man, and beardless. He would have looked at you wistfully."

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Jonathan Coe
"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."

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Jonathan Coe
"Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do."

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Jonathan Coe
"I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning."

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Jonathan Coe
"You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it."

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Jonathan Coe
"I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!"

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Jonathan Coe
"But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels."

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Jonathan Coe
"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."

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Jonathan Coe
"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."

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Jonathan Coe
"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."

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Jonathan Coe
"Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem."

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