The Secret Scripture
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For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth.
Barbara
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That is to say, he thought of the Protestant religion as an instrument as soft as a feather transformed into a hammer by the old dispensation, and used to batter the heads of those that laboured to live in Ireland, the most of them Catholics by nature.
Barbara
Protestant religion in Ireland
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Because a lone person takes great comfort from her people, in the watches of the night, even the memory of them.
Barbara
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which suggested to me she was not psychotic, but that her memory too perhaps had suffered the silverfish of age.
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All that remains of me now is a rumour of beauty.
Barbara
Beauty