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David A. Bell Quotes

born 1962 United States

David Avrom Bell is an American historian specializing in French history.

United States
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Non-fiction authors

Also known as: David Avrom Bell

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Ideas do not have force outside specific social contexts. The same ideas may have enormous force in one context and look bizarre or repulsive in another.

...Even in the most intimate forms of writing, people still followed established conventions and wrote what they felt was expected of them. They could lie to their friends and family, even to themselves.

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