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title: "3 Histories Like Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-perlstein/i-don-t-read-many-popular-histories-like-the-ones-i-write-the/)

[Rick Perlstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-perlstein/)

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> [“To recount these histories is like unravelling a thread: one means only to tell one little part, but then another comes in,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-george/to-recount-these-histories-is-like-unravelling-a-thread-one-means/)

[Margaret George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-george/)

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> [I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenni-olson/i-ve-been-making-16mm-urban-landscape-films-about-san-francisco-for/)

[Jenni Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenni-olson/)

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