"To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?"

-- Barbara Tuchman

#History Quotes #Smoking Quotes #Events Quotes

“Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.150
“It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.”
“There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.”
“As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on colonizÂing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.”
“Rap will never be the same as before”
“I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.”
“I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me...”
“There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.”

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