Author: Simon Schama

Quotes

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

- Simon Schama

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

- Simon Schama

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

- Simon Schama

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

- Simon Schama

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

- Simon Schama

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