Simon Schama Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Simon Schama quotes and sayings page 5 (79 year old historian). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 61 we have for him.
“I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.”
“I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.”
“I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.”
“I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.”
“If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma, I certainly will go.”
“Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.”
“Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.”
“The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.”
“The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.”
“The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.”
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