"History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else."

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Source : "Just the Facts, Ma'am" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2008.

Jill Lepore

#Long Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Argument Quotes

“No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.”
“The best of times is now.”
“In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.”
“He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things. . . . Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respectâ€”he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane.”
“Ive been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.”
“I'm not in the business of harassing anybody”
“Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.”
“One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.”

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