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I feel like people have more in common than the news reports.

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All history, of course, is the history of wars.

War, History, Courses, Course, Wars
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We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.

Ancestry, Know, Latin, Lexicons, Museums, Peoples

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

Consists, Library, Lying, Nerd, Table

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

Identity, Needs, Past, Sense

The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

Ideas, Linear, Memories, Mind, Presents, Snatches

The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar.

Broken, Day, Like, Longer, Self, Sweet
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