Quotulatiousness

August 24, 2013

QotD: History and fiction

Filed under: Books, History, Media, Quotations — Nicholas @ 00:01

It’s possible to cut and slice history really any way you want to … That’s probably why history belongs more to the novelists and the poets than it does to the social scientists. At least we admit that we lie.

E.L. Doctorow, Essays and Conversations, 1983

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