Diners Quote by Douglas Coupland

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

— Douglas Coupland

“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,…

— Julian Barnes

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before…

— Milan Kundera

“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted backdrop…

— Milan Kundera

“...Robert Louis Stevenson presents a character who, in London at night, is astonished 'to walk for such a long time in such a complex…

— Tom McDonough

“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted BACKDROP…

— Milan Kundera

“Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to us when…

— Siri Hustvedt

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

— Anonymous

“Our consumer culture is organized against history. There is a depreciation of memory and a ridicule of hope, which means everything must be held…

— Walter Brueggemann

“It seemed impossible that a modern airport, full of prosperous and purposeful travellers, was only kilometres away from those crushed and cindered dreams. My…

— Gregory David Roberts

“People claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which…

— Marcel Proust

As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means…

— Allan Bloom