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Simon Schama has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to…
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Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor…
— David Halberstam
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When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.
— Bob Costas
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Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is…
— Tom Glavine
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I…
— Simon Schama
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If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series,…
— Michael Lewis
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I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the…
— James Spader
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Fenway is the essence of baseball
— Tom Seaver
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I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of…
— Carl Yastrzemski
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For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.
— John Williams
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When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or…
— John Williams
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley…
— Pat Gillick
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In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike…
— Stephen Rodrick
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