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"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
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"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling."
"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
"I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well."
"I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it."
"Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history."
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"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."
"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
"To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement."
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