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David McCullough Quotes

David McCullough quotes about reading

American Historian July 7, 1933

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The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough. David McCullough
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12) David McCullough
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. David McCullough
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. David McCullough
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them."(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History) David McCullough
David McCullough quote: "The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have..."
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write. David McCullough
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. David McCullough
David McCullough quote: "No harm's done to history by making it something someone would..."
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read. David McCullough

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