"The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents."

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Source : Henry Walter Bates (1863). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons”, p.40

Henry Walter Bates

#Cities Quotes #People Quotes #Victory Quotes

“I believe the middle class game is dead.”
“Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.”
“My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.”
“Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.”
“At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In Ysleta, you believed in God because you were poor and needed something to hold on to. At Harvard, you believed in your good luck or bad luck, in all-nighters, in your political savvy.”
“It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.”
“You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.”
“Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.”

Source : "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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