History Quote by Alice Hoffman

““History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.””

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Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

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“All of the quarters in his hand were tarnished. He had no idea that the silver in a man’s pockets always turns black if…

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But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it…

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“It was after dark when the woods were most filled with magic, when there were fireflies and the mist was rising from the streams.”

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“Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning and thunder, or the true love you won't ever have. Life is brushing your teeth and making breakfast for your children and not thinking about things, and as it turns out, Sally is first-rate at all…

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This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

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“She preferred cats to human beings and turned down every offer from the men who fell in love with her.”

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I'm a really eclectic reader.

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It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

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“Her vision was going, but she could see him, the way people see clouds-beautiful, racing by, casting shadows.”

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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There…

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“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching…

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Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

Simon Schama

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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

Norman Vincent Peale

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will…

Frederick Buechner

The NBA is my history.

Penny Hardaway

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History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the…

Angela Merkel

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

John Dryden

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

Jean Cocteau

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Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot…

David Fahrenthold

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History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of…

Allison Schroeder

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We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

Edgar Mitchell