Abet Quote by Garth Greenwell

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along…

— Garth Greenwell

History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

— Garth Greenwell

History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the…

— Dexter Perkins

“I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school, apart from…

— Barbara Quick

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

— John W. Gardner

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly

I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the…

— Ellen Ullman

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so…

— Ian Mortimer

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

— Martin Luther King, Jr