Events Quote by Anne Michaels

“History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.”

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“I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.”

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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

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To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

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Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

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“History is the love that enters us through death.”

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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

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