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It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.


Antony Beevor


#book #each #four #individual #long

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.


Antony Beevor


#army #arrogance #because #been #boring

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.


Ambrose Bierce


#discloses #disguises #foolish #lack #their

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.


Antony Beevor


#being #control #diminish #dream #european

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.


Antony Beevor


#make #mistake #worst #writer

When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television.


Antony Beevor


#best #bottle #day #dinner #done

The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.


Michael Behe


#could #eye #first #happens #how

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.


Paul Begala


#bush #campaign #compliant #congress #embark

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.


Paul Begala


#amiable #effect #had #his #last

I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.


Paul Begala


#democrats #i #i think #many #think