Simon Winchester Quotes

The comparisons to Katrina are numerous and just eerie

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Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester (born 28 September 1944) is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. Winchester has written or contributed to more than a dozen nonfiction books, has written one novel, and has contributed to several travel magazines, among them Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic.

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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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I would argue that William Smith turned a lot of things on their head with this map, which was a hugely important and profound development

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A Crack in the Edge of the World

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No one knew in those days that [parts of the world] were moving

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And the beginning of the beginning of what is now the most populous Islamic state on earth, Indonesia.

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Priests roved around the ruins, selecting at random those they believed guilty of heresy and thus to blame for annoying the Divine, who in turn had ordered up the disaster. The priests had them hanged on the spot.

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Cement was a relatively new material at that time

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The comparisons to Katrina are numerous and just eerie
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No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility. For English is a language that simply cannot be fixed, not can its use ever be absolutely laid down. It changes constantly; it grows with an almost exponential joy. It evolves eternally; its words alter their senses and their meanings subtly, slowly, or speedily according to fashion and need.

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