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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry,… — Anne Bronte
I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and… — Michael Ondaatje
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . — Michael Lewis
There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny. — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies,… — Dan Brown
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in… — Mercedes Lackey
What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw… — Charles Dickens
unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden… — Thomas Pynchon
What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the… — Moderata Fonte
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of… — Jane Austen
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term… — Jared Diamond
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental… — Jared Diamond
Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be… — Richard Branson
The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories… — Paulo Coelho
He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms… — Erin Morgenstern
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. — Zadie Smith
A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is… — Catherynne M. Valente
We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love… — FranÃ§ois Lelord
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I have become very good at clearing histories. — David Levithan
Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies- two ideas that on good days I believe wholeheartedly and on bad days I denounce as… — Tiffanie DeBartolo

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