"Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative."

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Edward Gibbon

#History Quotes #Naked Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
“My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.”
“The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.”
“I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.”
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
“The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.”
“This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.”

Source : Senate vote to cut "Guantánamo Bay prisoner rights faces challenge" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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