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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

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Learning from the past History repeating itself History Human nature

Author

Aldous Huxley

Source

A Case of Voluntary Ignorance Esquire

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Huxley, Aldous. "A Case of Voluntary Ignorance." Collected Essays. Harper & Brothers, 1959. Originally published Esquire, 1 Oct. 1956.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Norman Mailer

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Newspapers

Author

Norman Mailer

Source

She Thought the Russians Was Coming Esquire

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Mailer, Norman. "She Thought the Russians Was Coming." Esquire, 1 June 1960.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

James Baldwin

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Poverty

Author

James Baldwin

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Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem Esquire

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Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Baldwin, James. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem." Esquire, July 1960.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Baldwin

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Money and sex Sex Poverty

Author

James Baldwin

Source

The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy Esquire

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Baldwin, James. "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy." Esquire, 1 May 1961.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

James Baldwin

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Parents and children

Author

James Baldwin

Source

Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem Esquire

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Baldwin, James. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem." Esquire, July 1960.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Topic

Intelligence Contradiction Ideas

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

The Crack-Up Esquire

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." Esquire, Feb. 1936.

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, edited by James L.W. West, III. Cambridge UP, 2005.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.

William F. Buckley

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Experts Democracy

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William F. Buckley

Source

Esquire

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Buckley, William F., Jr. Quoted in "William F. Buckley, Jr.: Portrait of a Complainer." Interviewed by Dan Wakefield. Esquire Magazine, Jan. 1961.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Ernest Hemingway

Esquire

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Topic

Power of literature

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba Esquire

Medium

Letter Magazine

Language

English

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba." Esquire Magazine, 1 Dec. 1934.

Current Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba." By-line Ernest Hemingway, edited by William White. Scribner, 2003.