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“I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.”

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Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester is a British author renowned for his in-depth explorations of exploration and natural history. His works often combine personal experience with extensive academic research, covering a wide range of fields including geography, geology, history, and anthropology. more

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“So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'”

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“I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.”

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“All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.”

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“Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.”

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“I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.”

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“I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.”

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“Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.”

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“Many people think they could do much better if they only had the opportunity that they don’t realize they already have.”

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“Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.”

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