Edmund Morgan The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession. – Edmund Morgan American Quotes England Quotes Historical Quotes Literary Quotes Obsession Quotes Outsiders Quotes Preoccupation Quotes Puritans Quotes Scholars Quotes The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it. The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
Herta Muller In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don’t often receive invitations. – Herta Muller
Al B Sure To me there’s a fine line between genius and crazy and sometimes you don’t know which way it will steer you. – Al B Sure
Mencius Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. – Mencius
Philip Seymour Hoffman When you’re playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it’s one that you have to let go of ultimately. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
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