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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. - Ru

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

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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read – they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. – Russell Banks

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History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, History, Freedom & Religion

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My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. – Thomas Hardy

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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856

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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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People always come up to me now and say, Watchmen is the best superhero movie ever made. Im always saying Thats super cool. Thats nice of you to say. But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out. – Zack Snyder

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