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- It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
- The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
- The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
- From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.
- An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
- What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.