"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."
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"Education is a nation's cheapest defence"
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"All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth."
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"I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted."
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"It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question."
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"Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection."
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"Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?"
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"History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past."
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"This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard."
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"Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country"
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"As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit - subliterature."
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"Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity."
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"Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means."
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"We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?"
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"If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating."
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"Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means."
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"The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place."
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"Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent."
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"Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history."
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"Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia."
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