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" All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. "

Henry Louis Gates

" Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office. "

" Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private. "

" Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. "

Edmond de Goncourt

" Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations. "

" Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples. "

" History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. "

Ferdinand Marcos

" How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. "

" Leave history to historians. "

" Most historians are engaged in fiction. "

" Mr. Ford's decision to pardon Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he might have been charged with because of Watergate is seen by many historians as the central event of his 896-day presidency. "

" Study men, not historians. "

" The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men. "

" The best writers attempt to become alternative historians. "

" There are all kinds of historians and scholars who say that Brutus could have been a son of Caesar. That's definitely a possibility. He's a generation younger than Caesar. "

" To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. "

" Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. "

" We are not merely historians but also and always citizens. "

" We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. "

" Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write. "

Alexander Downer

" We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it. "

" Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. "

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