"A chronicle is very different from history proper." — Howard Nemerov

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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
• The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more… — H. L. Mencken
• 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
• 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
• Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But… — Henning Mankell
• Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable… — Mark Doty
• History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed. — Louis Fischer
• Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence… — Philip Gourevitch

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