Historian Quotes
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As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.
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Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
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No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for 'Before Coffee'.
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No historian should be trusted implicitly.
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Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.
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I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.
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The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of thought there is a path, a lane - maybe very narrow - which is the path of the historian of thought.
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The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.
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I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.
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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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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.
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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.
