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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical Quotes
Words on a past that never fully stays behind.
These historical quotes include one artist's simple claim to be a historical painter, alongside thoughts on why historical fiction keeps readers returning to the same characters. See related lines under Fiction.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.
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September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point. It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.
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- Nov 07, 2020