Curated Quotations

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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  • “As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.” -Doris Kearns Goodwin

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  • “The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.” -Doris Kearns Goodwin

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  • “I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.” -Doris Kearns Goodwin

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  • “Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.” -Doris Kearns Goodwin

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