Avignon/history

Famous quotes containing the words avignon and/or history:

    “he was sitting
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    Laura and laurel
    written in Avignon ...”
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    “False history gets made all day, any day,
    the truth of the new is never on the news
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    the lesbian archaeologist watches herself
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