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"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."
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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."
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"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"
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"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."
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"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."
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"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."
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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."
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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
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"Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!"
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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
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"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."
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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
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"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."
Family
"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."
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"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."
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"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."
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"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."
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"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."
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"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
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"However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned."
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