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Category Archive: July 7

William Kunstler Quote: “So May 4th in the labor…”

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

October 9, 2021 1919, American, July 7, Quotes by Activists, William Kunstler

David McCullough Quote: “With the Truman book, I wrote…”

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right – it does look like that.

October 4, 2021 1933, American, David McCullough, July 7, Quotes by Historians

David McCullough Quote: “I love Dickens. I love the…”

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

September 25, 2021 1933, American, David McCullough, July 7, Quotes by Historians

David McCullough Quote: “To me history ought to be…”

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn’t just part of our civic responsibility. To me it’s an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

September 1, 2021 1933, American, David McCullough, July 7, Quotes by Historians

David McCullough Quote: “To go back and read Swift…”

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope – all those people we had to read in college English courses – to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

August 13, 2021 1933, American, David McCullough, July 7, Quotes by Historians

William Kunstler Quote: “At first blush, it seems that…”

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

August 3, 2021 1919, American, July 7, Quotes by Activists, William Kunstler

David McCullough Quote: “History is a guide to navigation…”

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

July 6, 2021 1933, American, David McCullough, July 7, Quotes by Historians

David McCullough Quote: “Every book is a new journey….”

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

July 5, 2021 1933, American, David McCullough, July 7, Quotes by Historians

Margaret Walker Quote: “The poetry of a people comes…”

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

July 4, 2021 1915, American, July 7, Margaret Walker, Quotes by Poets

David McCullough Quote: “My shorthand answer is that I…”

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

May 23, 2021 1933, American, David McCullough, July 7, Quotes by Historians

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