Historical Quotes - Page 28

• I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

  Philippa Gregory

  Interesting, Fiction, Literature

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• The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

  Antony Beevor

  Facts, Fiction, Term

  "Real concerns" by Antony Beevor, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

  Aminatta Forna

  Political, Stories, Narrative

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• Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

  Sidney Hook

  Stupidity, Sometimes, Force

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• I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

  Samantha Shannon

  Events, Culture, Literature

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• I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

  Hamish Bowles

  Saint, Pieces, Odd

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• After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Book, Two, Mystery

  "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

  Stephen Fry

  Law, Example, Anarchy

  Stephen Fry (2006). “The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within”, p.146, Penguin

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• They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange

  Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

  Simple, Giving, Culture

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• I just love historical fiction.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Fiction, Historical Fiction

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• Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Color, Two, Events

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• I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, Children, Clothes

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• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Adventure, Appreciate

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• Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Book, Loss, Light

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• The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!

  Tasha Alexander

  Queens, Triumph, Details

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• Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, Black

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• Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  My Favorite, Abigail

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• Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.

  Martha Grimes

  Historical Novels, Details, London

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• The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Loyalty, Country, Past

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• Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Miracle, Atheism

  John Stuart Mill (1874). “Three Essays on Religion”, p.239, New York : H. Holt

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• The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Song, Art, Epic

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• The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud. Marx showed the moving powers and the conflicts in the social-historical process. Freud aimed at the critical uncovering of the inner conflicts. Both worked for the liberation of man, even though Marx's concept was more comprehensive and less time-bound than Freud's.

  Erich Fromm

  Moving, Men, Two

  Erich Fromm (1992). “The art of being”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.

  George Santayana

  Character, Past, Historical Novels

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.62, Indiana University Press

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• In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details. But in history the matter is far otherwise. Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Science, Night

  "On History". The Independent Review 3, pp. 207-215, users.drew.edu. July 1904.

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• Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and its attainment is historically recorded. The religious goal remains, even in man's highest experiences, that which simply provides direction on the mortal way; it never enters into historical consummation.

  Martin Buber

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Martin Buber (1963). “Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman”

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