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"From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past."
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"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."
"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."
"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."
"Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks."
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"In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it."
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"An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic."
"Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future."
"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission."
"An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary."
"I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific."
"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."
"I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one."
"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."
"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones."
"Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects."
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