I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.
BARBARA TUCHMANThe Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
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The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
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The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
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Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.
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Woman was the Church’s rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil’s decoy.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers – danger, death, and live ammunition.
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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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