"Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record." — Gilbert Ryle

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• It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize… — Samuel Beckett
• It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation,… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
• The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more… — H. L. Mencken
• Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past,… — Alexander Pope
• Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their… — Adam Sedgwick
• The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country,… — Bill O'Reilly
• Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing… — Shawn Ashmore
• A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life,… — Stephen Greenblatt
• The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish… — George W. S. Trow
• The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten… — John A. Keel
• Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of… — Frank Crowninshield
• A chronicle is very different from history proper. — Howard Nemerov

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