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Historian Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
- Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating…
- The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
- It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story,…
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- The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
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- The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the… — Oscar Wilde
- I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell… — Boyd K. Packer
- I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. — Stephen Ambrose
- They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have… — Lydia M. Child