English - Novelist | October 8, 1933 -
To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at home when I was growing up that I always felt I knew him well.
Michael Korda
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Nothing in the Middle East is ever forgotten or forgiven.
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Hebron is a bone of contention between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians in part because Abraham is buried there, in the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
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It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore it.
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Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.
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Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject.
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Indeed, it is measure of how little we know about Cleopatra that the only images of her are either the coins she struck, bearing very unflattering official portraits of her, or some doubtful busts, which may be of other women imitating her coiffure.
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In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and embitter French politics and culture and lead to its defeat in 1940.
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The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is still where good Americans want to go when they die - and Brits, Russians, and Chinese as well, these days.
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There are no French Puritans.
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When someone has spent a lifetime trying to survive a death sentence, the last thing you want is your children uncovering what you have been at such pains to conceal.
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While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.
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