Historian Quotes
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My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.
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Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
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Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.
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No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.
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For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be there. And then when you move on to the level of what historians said, laying the interpretations side by side. You also have to look back at the documents and make your own judgments. What the record says and what people say about it. A novelist can fill the gaps in a way that a biographer cannot.
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I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.
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I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.
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The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.
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No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for 'Before Coffee'.
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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
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I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.
