Giles Foden quotes

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders. (Giles Foden)
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe. View quote
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The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened. View quote
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The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture. View quote
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In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either. View quote
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From 1971 to 1993 my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself. View quote
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Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head. View quote
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Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities. View quote
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I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares. View quote
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Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures. View quote
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To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. (Giles Foden)
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner. View quote
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You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties. View quote
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Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook. View quote
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