"To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende."

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Source : Erich Auerbach (1957). “Mimesis”

Erich Auerbach

#Writing Quotes #Technique Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“I hate all the core stuff. Thatâ€™s why I have to have a trainer. Thatâ€™s the only way Iâ€™m going to do the abs work.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“All special assistants to the president are typically political appointees of the first year of the new president.”
“I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.”
“I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about”
“A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as oneâ€™s thoughts change. And when itâ€™s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it”
“Before you go,mate,turn on the telly. Something raunchy too. Think I'll rub off one before I go to sleep”
“Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.”

Source : Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company
“Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere.”

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