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Simon Schama quotes: I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

Simon Schama quotes: There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

Simon Schama quotes: The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

Simon Schama quotes: Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

Simon Schama quotes: I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.

I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.

Simon Schama quotes: The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.

The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.

Simon Schama quotes: It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

Simon Schama quotes: The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

Simon Schama quotes: Be angry only for a grave cause that rightly calls for indignation,' Maimonides wrote in his Mishneh Torah. What

Be angry only for a grave cause that rightly calls for indignation,' Maimonides wrote in his Mishneh Torah. What

Simon Schama quotes: Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

Simon Schama quotes: History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

Simon Schama quotes: As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

Simon Schama quotes: Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept.

Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept.

Simon Schama quotes: From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

Simon Schama quotes: Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

Simon Schama quotes: I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

Simon Schama quotes: Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

Simon Schama quotes: Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

Simon Schama quotes: A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

Simon Schama quotes: I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Simon Schama quotes: I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

Simon Schama quotes: I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

Simon Schama quotes: Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.

Simon Schama quotes: An ox carcass by Rembrandt seems so utterly butchered as to be agonisingly still alive. A

An ox carcass by Rembrandt seems so utterly butchered as to be agonisingly still alive. A

Simon Schama quotes: The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

Simon Schama quotes: The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

Simon Schama quotes: If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go.

If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go.

Simon Schama quotes: I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.

I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.