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If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once. ↗

— Richard Russo

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I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences. ↗

— Joe Sacco

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