Language Quote by Jedediah Berry

“The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.”

— Russell Banks

“The twinkle that softens the review; the martyr's super-logic and the child's intuition; the fact that a fragment of moss can pull back into…

— Beatrice Warde

“The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but this morbid…

— Thomas Bernhard

“Mysteries are fine things, but the written word should be preserved, intact, and free of extraneous error.”

— Sandra Staas

“The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.”

— Anonymous

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“the world’s many mysteries fascinate me and inspire in me a hope so profound that I suppose, if I were to express it sincerely…

— Dean Koontz

“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and…

— China Miéville

“The archival document is a tear in the fabric of time, an unplanned glimpse offered into an unexpected event.”

— Arlette Farge

“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”

— Anthony Doerr

“Refusing the false securities of a stable and linear past, such an approach celebrates heterogeneous sensations and surprising associations, random connections, the ongoing construction…

— Tim Edensor

“The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms. I know of districts in which the young men prostrate…

— Jorge Luis Borges