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How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.
— Karl Shapiro
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Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.
— Barbara Tuchman
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