"The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms."

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Source : "Real concerns" by Antony Beevor, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

Antony Beevor

#Historical Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.”

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“We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.”
“It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.”
“From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.”
“But to value every company as if they are the next Google, rather than valuing them all as if one of them might be, is pretty much the definition of a bubble.”
“Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?”
“Well, I have a very simple method of painting.”
“Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. Tell it that it should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?”

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