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This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings… — Jerry Spinelli
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the… — Gaston Bachelard
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think,… — Megan Whalen Turner
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of… — Merlin Stone
History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at… — Esther M. Friesner
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the… — Moderata Fonte
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. — Margaret Atwood
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. — Julian Barnes
Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians… — Terry Pratchett
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and… — Orson Scott Card
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the… — C.S. Lewis
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost. — Gaston Bachelard
It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some… — Isaac Marion
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. — Glen Cook
Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can… — Chuck Klosterman
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. — Max Beerbohm
To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
In a certain sense all men are historians. — Thomas Carlyle
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was. — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. — Joseph J. Ellis
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest… — G. M. Trevelyan
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are… — Polybius
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record,… — Will Durant

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