The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. — Peter Conrad Copy Share Image
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. — Peter Conrad Copy Share Image
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. — Peter Conrad Copy Share Image
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes… — Peter Conrad Copy Share Image
