"History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light."

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William L. Shirer

#Light Quotes #Able Quotes #Speak Quotes

“I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.”
“Nothing exists without its opposite.”
“God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.”
“How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.”
“You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.”
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1949. According to Nigel Rees, Cassell's Humorous Quotations, the following appeared in Punch in 1924: " 'It took me nearly ten years to learn that I couldn't write.' 'I suppose you gave it up then?' 'Oh, no! By that time I had a reputation established.' " The issue referred to by Rees is 6 Feb., and the cartoonist is R. Curry.
“I hate commas in the wrong places.”
“So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”

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