Historical Value Quotes

• Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

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  Raymond Queneau

  Character   Historical Value   Fiction  

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• It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together to see what third entity is created! I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

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  Bat for Lashes

  Beautiful   Historical Value   Feelings  

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• My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present

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  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist   Past   Historical Value  

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.

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  Thucydides

  Believe   Historical Value   Crafts  

  Thucydides, Ruth Finnegan “History of Greece”, Lulu.com

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• The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.

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  Richard Hofstadter

  Men   Expression   Ideas  

  "The Paranoid Style in American Politics". Harper's Magazine, November 1964.

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