Hindsight Is The Historian's Necessary Vice.

[margaret] Thatcher Could Fake Her Class Background, But She Couldn't Fake The Quality Of Her Mind.

It's Not Easy To Diagnose Because Depending Where The Endometrial Deposits Are, The Symptoms Can Be Quite Different. It's An Unrecognized Problem Among Teenage Girls, And It's Something That Every Young Woman Who Has Painful Menstruation Should Be Aware Of... It's A Condition That Is Curable If It's Caught Early. If Not, If It's Allowed To Run On, It Can Cause Infertility, And It Can Really, Really Mess Up Your Life.

Over The City Lies The Sweet, Rotting Odor Of Yesterday's Unrecollected Sins.

A Sea-green Sky: Lamps Blossoming White. This Is Marginal Land: Fields Of Strung Wire, Of Treadless Tyres In Ditches, Fridges Dead On Their Backs, And Starving Ponies Cropping The Mud. It Is A Landscape Running With Outcasts And Escapees, With Afghans, Turks And Kurds: With Scapegoats, Scarred With Bottle And Burn Marks, Limping From The Cities With Broken Ribs. The Life Forms Here Are Rejects, Or Anomalies: The Cats Tipped From Speeding Cars, And The Heathrow Sheep, Their Fleece Clotted With The Stench Of Aviation Fuel.

For Historians, Creative Writers Provide A Kind Of Pornography.