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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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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love historical fiction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.
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- Nov 07, 2020