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Author - Simon Schama
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historical perspective
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a....
Life
Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper.....
Will
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones....
Quality
History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
Discipline
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the....
Powerful
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social....
People
I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented....
Egypt
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the....
Defined
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
Challenge
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but....
Book
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond....
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