Palimpsest Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
— Teju Cole
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The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.
— Pat Barker
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What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.
— Natasha Trethewey
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Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
— A.C. Grayling
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Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could…
— George Orwell
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In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re…
— Neil Gaiman
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Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
— Russell Hoban
Who Wrote These Palimpsest Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Palimpsest Quotes as follows: