What we have to
What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we’re looking at is not a historical event but – and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it – a racket. Ernst Zundel
Historical Events
Natalie Bakopoulos has that
Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments. Elizabeth Kostova
When the venture has
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. Charlotte Mary Yonge
Any single historical event
Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think … Read more
The Renaissance is studded
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. Arthur Erickson
‘Easter’ is a movable
‘Easter’ is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to … Read more
In non-fiction you have
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national . Andrew Lam
History is an account,
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Ambrose Bierce
All ethics so far
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. Aldo Leopold
We have gotten away
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. Raymond Queneau