As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“See, everything that ever could possibly have happened, in the entire history of the universe right from the Big Bang up until… — Lawrence Watt-Evans Copy Share Image
“My pillowcases were totally full and the boots hanging around my neck added to the weight I was carrying, but I was… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“He led her back to the house, the perfume from the acacia clinging to her. The djinn was supposed to live in… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“...what has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The CIA's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation is filled with dramatic and harrowing details that not only lay bare… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“The historian Cassiodorus believed that the selective destruction of Alaric, as regards the Greek monuments, was of good effect. Alaric had some… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“If we grant that our evolutionary history did not prepare us to detect lies from demeanor, why do we not learn how… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
“Sometime during my study of the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, I uncovered an odd paradox that exists in our minds about… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“Another result of the War of 1812 was the loss of part of our history. As historian Bruce Johansen put it, "A… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
“Memory acts at various levels: individual and family, social, and nation-state. Memory is not fixed: far from it, at every level memory… — Suzanne Keene Copy Share Image
Andres is a genius, and it's an honour to share the same dressing room. I hope to learn a lot from him.… — Philippe Coutinho Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that our children know different kinds of people, eat different kinds of food, and learn our true… — Christian Picciolini Copy Share Image
“I was right about not being able to control my own surprises, but I was wrong about how good these surprises could… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“You don't understand that one can be an atheist, one can not know whether God exists or why, and at the same… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“...the cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The themes of Jesus' teaching are important, but of course he was more than a teacher. All the Gospels put the end… — William C Placher Copy Share Image
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“America at a turning point! But in 1813 the United States and Nathan Jeffries may lose everything; blockaded, imprisoned, raided, massacred, Americans… — Bert J. Hubinger Copy Share Image
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
Writers of historical fiction are often faced with a problem: if they include real-life people, how do they ensure that their make-believe… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“Seemingly random events and movements and trends gather power and momentum, unseen for long periods of time, and then bursting to the… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“In time I told Clarissa the difficulties we had had escaping from the war zone. She warmed up to me as we… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“The closest that either Voltaire or the other historical geniuses of the age -- Hume and Gibbon -- came to understanding unreason's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every role that I do, I always leave subliminal love letters to women of color in the details. You can go back… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
![“It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well…We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us…” quote by Ann Coulter](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/38c/ann-coulter-469_capitalism_it-is-a-law-of-nature-that-everything-ru_2470226.png)
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