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Barbara W Tuchman

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

– Barbara W Tuchman

Barbara W Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

– Barbara W Tuchman

Barbara W Tuchman

The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.

– Barbara W Tuchman

Barbara W Tuchman

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

– Barbara W Tuchman

Barbara W Tuchman

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

– Barbara W Tuchman

Barbara W Tuchman

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you’re an ordinary female housewife, people say, ‘This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it’s not professional.’

– Barbara W Tuchman

Barbara W Tuchman

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

– Barbara W Tuchman

Barbara W Tuchman

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

– Barbara W Tuchman

Barbara W Tuchman

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

– Barbara W Tuchman

Barbara W Tuchman

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

– Barbara W Tuchman

Barbara W Tuchman

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

– Barbara W Tuchman

Barbara W Tuchman

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

– Barbara W Tuchman

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