"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."

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Source : Eamon Duffy (2006). “Faith of Our Fathers”, p.186, A&C Black

Eamon Duffy

#Heart Quotes #Past Quotes #History Quotes

“The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.”
“You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.”
“The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.”

Source : Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Alice Adams”, p.247, Booklassic
“The truth is in the mystery.”
“Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.”
“Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.”
“hot pink looks cute on only janet which is MEEEEEEE!!!”
“A child is not an adult, a child didn't ask to be here. Any man that doesn't take care of his responsibilities to his family and to his children, do me a favor STOP calling yourself a man..at least have the decency to admit that you're a boy. You don't know what manhood is.”

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