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There lived great souls in the history of the world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. — Henry James

The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The — Edward Gibbon

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions. — Richard Dawkins

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek. — R. Curtis Venture

Today is the beginning of new history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history. — Steven Heighton

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major. — Janet Fitch

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that. — JJ Feild

History without politics descends to mere Literature. — John Robert Seeley

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. — Carlos Fuentes

I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal. — Ralph Webster

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To study history is to study literature. — Robert Aris Willmott

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around. — Keri Russell

Life will be empty without great stories to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple. — Ralph Webster

Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident - and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature. — Thomas Cahill

Life consists of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature. — May Sarton

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you. — Benjamin Disraeli

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career. — Pete Hamill

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die. — Saul Williams

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become. — Germaine Greer

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C.V. Wedgwood

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

History is scholarship. It is also art, and it is literature. — Stephen J. Pyne

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. — Gilbert Murray

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone. — Julien Gracq

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end. — David O. McKay

What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history.
(In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III') — Paul Murray Kendall

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman

I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls. — Siri Hustvedt

The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time. — Emilie Autumn

How would you document the history of today? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. — Robert Staughton Lynd

Seek to know the history of the sacred souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every soul that existed on earth is part of earth human history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story. — Rachel Lewis

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. — Leopold Von Ranke

Ancient literature is a rich history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books. — Elliot Ackerman

We travel to ancient times by reading history books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence. — Michel Foucault

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. — Heinrich Heine

Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other. — Jean Rhys

We are only writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us. — Ralph Webster

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle. — Kurt Vonnegut

History must be documented; every moment is a sacred history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — John Henry Newman

Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again? — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Each people behaves as if it had reached the end of history. — Nuria Amat

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. — Dejan Stojanovic

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned. — Joseph Bottum

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries. — Douglas Brinkley

The Bible is the greatest literature of all times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think literature reveals more about us than history does. — Susan Meissner

History is a branch of mathematics. So is literature. Economics is a branch of religion. — Matt Haig

The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress. — C.S. Lewis

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. — David O. McKay

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature. — Stacy Schiff

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed. — Dejan Stojanovic

Literature is the history of the soul. — Barry Hannah

Sadly, we have confused biblical literature with history, and turned prophecy into biography. — Eli Of Kittim

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. — Debbie Allen

History will be erased in the universal purgatory. — Dejan Stojanovic

History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain. — Peter Esterhazy

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. — Andrew Bird

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other. — Richard Flanagan

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating. — Germaine Greer

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women. — Germaine Greer

We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture. — M.H. Abrams

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies. — George Lucas