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Eamon Duffy Quotes

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

Eamon Duffy
Past, History, Aspect

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

Eamon Duffy
Knowing, History, Comfort

We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.

Eamon Duffy
Heart, Past, History
Eamon Duffy (2006). “Faith of Our Fathers”, p.186, A&C Black

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

Eamon Duffy
History, Tangled, Messy
Eamon Duffy (2006). “Faith of Our Fathers”, p.77, A&C Black

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