#historical

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#atonement #beach #bit #dirty #get

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#black #few #figures #film #get

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. ↗

— Bob Packwood

#away #been #geniuses #historically #republicans

It's a very good historical book about history. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#about #book #good #historical #very

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#consisted #either #fiction #general #having

All societies are historical. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#societies

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. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

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. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#even #historical #odyssey #point #side

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#christian #east #establishing #ethical #ethics

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#been #characters #compare #good #good thing