About Quote by Fred Kaplan Download Open image “Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.” — Fred Kaplan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare About Fill Language Library Small Words
A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they… — Henry Ketcham Copy Share Image
“The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot about the… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
“immortal words of Lincoln nurtured and guarded by a grateful people, this spot for all time to come cannot be other than the nation’s… — Matilda Pierce Alleman Copy Share Image
“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.” — William Dyer Copy Share Image
To give credit to Lincoln for moral progression seems beyond the facts and unnecessary for our appreciation of this arguably greatest of all American… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
I first wrote a biography of Thomas Carlyle, and it turned out I loved writing biographies and had a talent for it. I believed… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Is there really any relationship between artists' personal conduct and their art? Certainly not. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book, but it… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon… — Magdalena Neuner Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
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