"I want the reader to turn the page……" — Barbara Tuchman
"I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end."
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68 Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman has 68 quotes on this site.
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of…
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy…
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard,…
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When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no…
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose…
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory…
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material,…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
— Aristotle
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
— Darren Aronofsky
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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