History Quote by Joseph McElroy

“Before long the formed into a circle, and neither of them could imagine being a straight line again, caught in the loneliness of blunt…

— Rita Leganski

“We’re stepping into a new world, and an entire way of thinking must be changed. But the old ideas can’t be easily discarded. Like…

— Gail Tsukiyama

“But if we remember that to say is to renew, we will have no trouble defining a spiral: it’s a circle that rises without…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Today’s tangents will become tomorrow’s arcs, and unforeseen connections will tie up your loose ends in a way that will make you want to…

— Chris Baty

“Which was strange, like watching a tangle of loose threads unravel and plait themselves into a single braided cord, stretching ahead into the future.”

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience…

— Walter Pater

“Maybe I have merely undergone a great, slow disintegration. And my struggle against that disintegration is just that: is just trying to give it…

— Clarice Lispector

“This was one of the most revealing scenes of the whole revolution – one of those rare episodes when the hidden relations of power…

— Orlando Figes

“Like the ripples from a stone tossed into the pond from the water’s edge, the effects of our choices extend infinitely outward. Even the…

— Justin Young

“And these open vortexes in the sonorous world finally form one sole vortex in which the ideas fit in with one another.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“When you are stuck in a spiral, to change the aspects of the spin you only need to change one thing.”

— Christina Baldwin