"I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it."

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I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.

— Nicholson Baker