History Quote by Andrew Smith

““I was going to do something I'd never done, and see things I could not understand and never believed existed. This is history, and it is also the truth.””

Andrew Smith

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“I was thinking. What if the world was like one of those Russian nesting dolls? What if we only saw one surface of it,…

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“History is full of decapitations, and Iowa is no exception.”

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“Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.”

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“Sometimes it is perfectly acceptable to decide not to decide, to remain confused and wide-eyed about the next thing that will pop up in…

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“People fear what they can not understand and what they can not control.”

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“Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract – like breathing, but you could never…

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“You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks…

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“Was Apollo worth all the effort and expense? If it had been about the Moon, the answer would be no, but it wasn't, it…

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“I once heard a tobacco-chewing hog farmer say that, in Iowa, folks like to spread out their children like dog shit on a dance…

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“Not a very pretty world, is it?" "Which one?”

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“Everyone on every road that crossed beneath the point of my pen was always going to do the same things over and over and…

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