I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
BARBARA TUCHMANI have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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Above all, discard the irrelevant.
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Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
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That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
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No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
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Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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To explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
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When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
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When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
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Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
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