No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than another thing… Yet what were history if he did not exaggerate it? How comes it that history never… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“My own story, anyone's own story, is always told against me, even what I myself am writing here, because I have no heroic history to offer. There is no difficulty not of my own making.” — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
