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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's only recently that we've discovered that the artist's inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I'm happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.
- Extending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.'
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never read in bed, only in my study.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are much more interesting than people realise.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020