Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.
Ken Liu
RealityYouNothingTalkHistorical
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical, and this is often how they are taught in school.
Jane Smiley
LifeSchoolLiteratureHistorical
What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they feel their own lack of education may be exposed; they panic, because they don't know which bits are true.
Hilary Mantel
EducationFeelKnowTrueHistorical
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
George R. R. Martin
SkinFantasyBirthAlwaysHistorical
Redistributing tokens is a balancing act. In most cases, forks probably want to keep ownership for users constant so users have at least the same incentives to use the new fork as the historical one.
Fred Ehrsam
OwnershipNewWantSameHistorical
That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.
Charles Hodge
OfficeTemporaryHistoricalFact
In crime, I like Ian Rankin and James Lee Burke. As for historical books, I enjoy Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brien, and C. S. Forester - anything with battleships!
Alastair Reynolds
EnjoyCrimeAnythingHistoricalLike
I like the stories with the historical themes.
Sarah Sutton
HistoricalLikeStoriesThemes
All societies are historical.
Raymond Queneau
HistoricalSocieties
My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.
Marcus Samuelsson
FatherLovedYouHistoricalTakeUs
The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.
Georg Simmel
LifeGreatRightEqualHistorical
I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical reality - in stories about nature that are perpetuated in oral myths. That's how I got interested in it.
Adrienne Mayor
NatureTruthRealityHistoricalJust
I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.
Benedict Wong
FeelPlaceEmpireHistoricalGet
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
Samuel E. Morison
HistoryImportantStartingHistorical
Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.
Jeremy Jackson
PeopleAmericaHistoricalOptions
In any film there's always a historical implication.
Oliver Stone
AlwaysHistoricalFilmAny
It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.
Max von Sydow
TimePeopleMeSeeI SeeHistorical
I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
Karin Slaughter
AlwaysFictionHistoricalBeenDrawn
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
Andy Goldsworthy
MemoriesStoneHistoricalGeological
I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
ArtHouseMuseumsMoreHistorical
I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'
Alvaro Enrigue
WonderWayWhat IfWriteHistorical
To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
Adam Mansbach
MomentCaptureSoundHistorical
I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.
Tom Paulin
ThinkConsciousnessCarryHistorical
It's a very good historical book about history.
Dan Quayle
GoodHistoryBookHistoricalVery
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