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"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
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"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
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"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
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"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
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"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
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"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
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"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."
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"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people."
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"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."
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"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
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"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."
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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."
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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."
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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
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