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Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.
From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.
I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.
I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.
Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.
Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.
we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.
The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.
historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.
The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts