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