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Very Quotes by Simon Schama
- The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very peculiar political animal.…
- These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority - the party of…
- Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different,…
- I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.
- I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
- The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation…
- I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to a tarantula. It…
- As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
- In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that…
- I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with…
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