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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Ever Honest May Men None Roof Rule Wise Wise Men

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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Done Harm History Making Read Someone Something Want Would

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Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Finding Love Real Real Success Success Success Is Work You

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With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Account Before Book Certain Does Entire Europe Experiences Finding Follow Going Got Had His Like Look Over Right Satisfaction Tracks Truman War World World War World War I Wrote

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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

Topics: Army Before British Chair Had Landed Lifted Long Me Only Out People Philadelphia Practically Read Realized Thirty Thousand Troops Very

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When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Began Book Research Should Then Thought Way Work Write

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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

Topics: Back College Courses English Go Had Infinite Johnson Life Now People Pleasures Pope Read Samuel Swift Them Those

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There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Awful Just Keep Point Researching Start Stop Temptation Where Writing You

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The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Almost Always Begin Beginning Hard Last Mind Really Scene Title Tone Where Work Work Hard You

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The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

~David Mccullough

Topics: Attraction Deciding Factor History How How Much Human Human Nature Luck Makes Much Nature Our Pull Tick Us Why

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: July 7th, 1933

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