Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
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To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.Helen Dunmore
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
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Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
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When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.
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I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.
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I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.
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