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The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can han

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that Lincoln is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, weve actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincolns presidency thats somewhat original. – Tony Kushner

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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? – Tony Kushner

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I dont feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that Im a gay man. – Tony Kushner

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Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things. – Tony Kushner

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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – Doris Lessing

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Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage – the union between one man and one woman – has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nations history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now. – Jim DeMint

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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. – C. Wright Mills

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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys. – Michael Oakeshott, On History

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