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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing a

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates

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History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern. – Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, Truth and Opinion

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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[History is] petrified imagination. – Arthur Baer

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Nixons full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the countrys history. – Conrad Black

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