Simon Schama Quotes (page 2)
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around th...
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He was a frustrated theatrical impresario, basically
Source: thinkexist.com
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older...
