"History gives you insight of the same quality……" — Simon Schama
"History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel."
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57 Quotes by Simon Schama
Simon Schama has 57 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
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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…
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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…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…
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