He was a frustrated theatrical impresario, basically. -Simon Schama

 

He was a frustrated theatrical impresario, basically.


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She writes family scenes better than anyone else I can think of.

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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

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He was a frustrated theatrical impresario, basically. -Simon Schama
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A terrible vanity, really, but as you get older...

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It was a conscious decision by (Sir Robert) Walpole and others to replace religion with making money. Elections replaced battles, and the fights were over party politics.

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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot. -Simon Schama
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We find a way (in each country) to contain our differences of opinion without annihilating one another.

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