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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.


A. B. Yehoshua


#certain #deliberation #dot #end #go

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.


Lucy Powell


#events #fast #happening #historians #i

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.


Richard Russo


#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and the presumption of guessing at the inner thoughts of historical figures. Unfortunately, the result has largely been not to demythologize the past, but merely to dehumanize and depersonalize it. As Roger Mudd has pointed out, 'Too many of today's historians [and biographers] ... seem to have forgotten that the writing of history is a literary art.


Markham Shaw Pyle


#history #writing #art

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid


Lucian of Samosata


#freedom #historian #history #business

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.


Antony Beevor


#duty #historian #more #simply #than

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.


Barbara Tuchman


#food #historian #libraries #muse #shelter

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.


Albion W. Small


#become #facts #finding #forgotten #historians

There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes.


Rafael Sabatini


#change

It follows that the one thing we should not do to the men and women of past time, and particularly if they ghost through to us as larger than life, is to take them out of their historical contexts. To do so is to run the risk of turning them into monsters, whom we can denounce for our (frequently political) motives—an insidious game, because we are condemning in their make-up that which is likely to belong to a whole social world, the world that helped to fashion them and that is deviously reflected or distorted in them. Censure of this sort is the work of petty moralists and propagandists, not historians (p. 5).


Lauro Martines


#context #historians #history #memory #moralists






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