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Barbara Tuchman [1912-1989] American

Rank: 102
Historian

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August, a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.

History, Food, Science, War

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.	History, Science	101
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.		101
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.		102
The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.		102
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.		103
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.		103
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.		104
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.		104
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.	Food	105
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'		105
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.		106
When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.		106
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.	War	107
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.		108
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.		109
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.		110
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.	History	111
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.		112
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.		113
Books are humanity in print.		114
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.		115
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.		116

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