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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

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Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. – Richard Ellman

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I dont think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But thats now history. – Colin Powell

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History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures

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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell

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I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best. – Henry Rollins

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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. – Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin #happyhour

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