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“The real failure is to rob this world of the contribution only you can make, and to fail to make work that truly gives you that 'this is what I was created to do' feeling that has no equal.”

Book:A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

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“I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the Levant, and passing through Eastern and Central Europe before crossing to the British Isles. And all of this knowable by an analysis of the cells on the inside of my mouth. I almost prefer the more rambling and indirect and journalistic investigation, which seems somehow less… deterministic.”

History Journalism Investigation Africa Genetics Ancestry Determinism Eastern Europe Genealogy National Geographic Savanna Sub Saharan Africa Mediterranean Sea Central Europe British Isles Levant

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“No one believes that the world can come to an end, therefore no one believes it can be saved.”

Dark Humour Central Europe

Book:The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives

Source: The Last Window-Giraffe: A Picture Dictionary for the over Fives

“Unlike exotic fruit or fancy cars, democracy is best if it is grown locally. It may take root in the common desire of the people who choose to adopt it, but it cannot be imposed from the outside.”

Democracy Central Europe

Book:The Ghosts of Europe: Central Europe's Past and Uncertain Future

Source: The Ghosts of Europe: Central Europe's Past and Uncertain Future

“All the ancient myths are the refraction and splintering of God's true white light into the many colors we see throughout the world. We write myths because our hears were written by a mythmaker.”

Inspirational Faith Mythology

Author:John Hendrix

“Take Tom Jones and mix him with Enrico Caruso, the Italian tenor-cum-castrato singer. Then add tons of pathetic love songs, faked sex appeal and musical kleptomania focusing on Western hits from the 1970s. Spice it up with a political flexibility rare even for Central European standards and a personal status close to that of the Pope. What do you get? Karel Gott, Czech pop music's most mega-super, long-lasting and brightest star.”

Humor Communism Pop Music Singer Central Europe Karel Gott

Book:The Czechs in a Nutshell

Source: The Czechs in a Nutshell

“Logically, when Maestro Gott some years ago, after an especially cruel critic had compared him to "a zombie who causes acute depression to innocent radio listeners", decided to stop performing in protest, the situation was considered so grave that the Minister of Culture himself went to console the deeply insulted star.”

Humor Communism Pop Music Singer Central Europe Karel Gott

Book:The Czechs in a Nutshell

Source: The Czechs in a Nutshell

“In the beginning, God created the heaven the earth and sometime later, the vampire.”

Love Fantasy Mystery Tragedy Paranormal Enigmatic Biographer Historical Setting Spine Tingling

Book:My Unbeating Heart

Source: My Unbeating Heart

“She was within me like the blood was within me in each and every fibre. I talked to her, but she never spoke back. It was just like talking to God, I never knew what either one of them thought about the words I spoke. It did not make her unreal. It did not make God unreal. It just made me want to connect with them even more.”

Love Fantasy Mystery Horror Tragedy Paranormal Intrigue Enigmatic Biographer Historical Setting

Book:My Unbeating Heart

Source: My Unbeating Heart

“In his book Footsteps (1985), Richard Holmes compared the biographer's act to 'a kind of pursuit, a tracking of the physical trail of someone's path through the past'. What Holmes realized in the course of his own pursuits was that the footstepping biographer never actually reached his subject; only encountered at best the second-order suggestions of their earlier presence: glimpses of afterglow, retinal ghosts, psychic gossamer. 'You would never catch them,' cautioned Holmes, 'no, you would never quite catch them...”

Pursuit Footsteps The Past Tracking Biographer

Book:The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Source: The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

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