Pieter Geyl quotes
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“Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.”
-- Pieter GeylSource : Pieter Geyl (1949). “Napoleon: For and Against”
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“Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.”
-- Pieter Geyl
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“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
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“Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’”
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Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.143, Penguin
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“Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.”
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