Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or historian:
“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The historian must have ... some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)