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• La propia tinta con la que se escribe la historia no es más que prejuicios fluidos.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Historical, Ink

  Mark Twain (2015). "Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend", p.54, St. Martin's Press.

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• La historia será benévola conmigo, porque tengo la intención de escribirla.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

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• The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

  John Hope Franklin

  Writing, History, Prejudice

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• El más valioso de todos los talentos es el de no utilizar nunca dos palabras cuando basta con una.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspiración, Motivación, Enseñanza

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• ¿Qué es la historia sino una fábula consensuada?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Memories, Agree Upon

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• The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Art, Writing, Men

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• History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak.

  Jill Lepore

  Arte, Escritura, Pasado

  Jill Lepore (2012). “The Story of America: Essays on Origins”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Drinking, Ocean, Writing

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• Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Past, History

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). "Críticas, reflexiones y máximas de Goethe: Tr., con una introducción"

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• La historia siempre se escribe mal y, por tanto, siempre hay que reescribirla.

  George Santayana

  Needs, Historian, Written

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.378, 谷月社

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• La mitad de escribir historia es ocultar la verdad.

  Joss Whedon

  Truth, Writing, Firefly

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Los acontecimientos de hoy son la historia de mañana, pero los hechos que se ven a simple vista carecen de la profundidad y la amplitud de las luchas, los triunfos y los sufrimientos humanos. Escribir la historia es escribir el alma del pasado... para que la generación actual aprenda de los errores pasados, se inspire en los sacrificios de sus antepasados y asuma la responsabilidad del futuro.

  Epifanio de los Santos

  Error, Lucha, Ojo

  "Tormentas silenciosas: vidas inspiradoras de 101 grandes filipinos". Libro de Fernando A. Bernardo, p. 37 - 38, 2000.

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• History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Soñar, Escribir, Pensar

  Gretel Ehrlich (1989). “Heart Mountain”, Vintage

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• The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Writing, Divine

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

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• You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a very large degree what all writers are doing - they're trying to get below the surface. Whether it's in fiction or poetry or writing history and biography. Some people make that possible because they write wonderful letters and diaries. And you have to sort of go where the material is.

  David McCullough

  Escribir, Gente, Intentar

  Fuente: belmontvision.com

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• Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mother, Father, Valentine

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.393, Tor Science Fiction

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• Movies are like writing history with lightning.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Writing, Lightning

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• It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Regret, Writing, Lightning

  Attributed in Scribner's Magazine, Nov. 1937. This is the earliest documented evidence for this quotation, and it appears unlikely to be authentic. Marjorie Brown King, the last survivor among the people at the 1915 screening, said that Wilson walked out of the room afterwards without comment. However, at least the first part of the quotation may have been associated with Wilson as early as February 1915. According to a 2004 article by Arthur Lennig, the New York American, 28 Feb. 1915, quoted B

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• Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Niños, Lectura, Escritura

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• People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point did Communists make an entry, not even to be criticized. They were essentially being whitewashed from history.

  Vijay Prashad

  Book, Writing, Class

  "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• Siento que estoy demasiado ocupado escribiendo historia para leerla.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Conceited, Busy

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• I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical, it comprehended, you know, just about everything that you can think of.

  William Monahan

  Escribir, Pensar, Largo

  Fuente: collider.com

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• I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Love Is, Thinking

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?

  Auguste Laurent

  Writing, Science, Romance

  David M. Knight, Auguste Laurent (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method”, p.204, Taylor & Francis

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• I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

  David McCullough

  Kindness, Writing, Curiosity

  Fuente: www.neh.gov

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