Quote by Charles M. Fox

“Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.”

— George will

“The present is merely the past reassembled,”

— Jamie Ford

I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the…

— Mike Tomlin

“The things of the past are difficult to recreate.”

— Steven Redhead

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give…

— Oliver Stone

“Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose ourselves in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

— Umberto Eco

“History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.”

— Terry Goodkind

“happened over a short period of time, things that were linked to the past and were to have considerable impact on the future.”

— Jasper Cooper

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

— Walter Benjamin

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust

Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

— Bernard Stiegler