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History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expoun

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves. – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. – Norman Mailer

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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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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. – Russell Banks

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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the mens crapper of the local bar. – Charles Bukowski

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