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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

Samuel E. Morison

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

Oliver Stone

I'm a historian in my own mind.

Quentin Tarantino

Famous Historian Authors

Ambrose Bierce

Peter Conrad

Penelope Lively

Barbara Tuchman

John Hope Franklin

B. H. Liddell Hart

James Harrington

H. L. Mencken

Goldwin Smith Christo

Christo

Ken Burns

Lee Hazlewood

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All Historian Quotes

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

63% of people like this quote

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Thomas Kuhn

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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

Samuel E. Morison

59% of people like this quote

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

Oliver Stone

59% of people like this quote

I'm a historian in my own mind.

Quentin Tarantino

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What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Lion Feuchtwanger

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Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian.

Christo

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The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

Goldwin Smith

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Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

Lee Hazlewood

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I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

Donald Kagan

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