Corrections Quote by Alexander Cockburn

“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The…

— Will Durant

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

— Charles Bukowski

I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter…

— Elia Suleiman

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

— Herodotus

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“The Final Word by Stewart Stafford On the wall of a prominent jacks, Came anonymous, scurrilous attacks, Innuendo and defamatory jibes, Scrawled by cowardly…

— Stewart Stafford

If history is written by victors, then memory is written by losers.

— Saed Kakei

People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes…

— Errol Morris

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“triumphantly digitized contemporaneity’?”

— John Green