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"History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all."
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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."
"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."
"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed."
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"I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary."
"I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty."
"I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc."
"So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine."
"Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect."
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