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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Acquired Blackout Blitz Dark Days Fairy Fairy Tales Hunger Second Second World War Tales War World World War

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England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Back Blitz Clearing Coal Day Dirty Dust England Every Every Day Grim Grit Late London Out Place Remember Smoke Still Stirred Then Up Very I Remember 1940S

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One of my favorite games of all time was on Nintendo 64 - 'NFL Blitz.' I don't know why, I just loved that game - being able to hit people after the play and stuff was always fun.

~Blake Griffin

Topics: Able After Always Being Blitz Favorite Fun Game Games Hit Just Know Loved Nintendo People Play Stuff Time Why Nfl

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I want to be active. I want to be able to show everything I can do. I can blitz. I can cover. I can play zone and play man. I can do it all.

~Chris Harris, Jr.

Topics: Able Active Blitz Cover Everything Man Play Show Want Zone I Can

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In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Also Atrocities Blitz Continent Distance England Even Gone Grip Had Literary Pilgrimage Psychologically Recent Ruins Saw Society Still Were While

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