Age Quote by Anonymous

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of…

— Cicely Saunders

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic…

— Niall Ferguson

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern…

— Lionel Trilling

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be…

— James A. Baldwin

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

— Helen Cam

“Whereas we, the dead, are the true inheritors of the Modern. The live lot assemble time into lazy decadences--ten-year periods of conspicuous attitudinising, which…

— Will Self

“What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is…

— Alain de Botton

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

— Antony Beevor

“The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from time to…

— Hassan Blasim

That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to…

— Julian Barnes