Eamon Duffy quotes
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“Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.”
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“History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.”
-- Eamon DuffySource : Eamon Duffy (2006). “Faith of Our Fathers”, p.77, A&C Black
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“We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.”
-- Eamon DuffySource : Eamon Duffy (2006). “Faith of Our Fathers”, p.186, A&C Black
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“If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.”
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
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“Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’”
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“Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.”
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