Ann Wroe famous quotes

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  • Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  • Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

  • A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.

  • The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

  • I sold my soul to the devil in L.A

  • I just bared my soul to you and all I get is an ‘okay’?

  • In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

  • People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

  • It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

  • A photograph is a biography of a moment.

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