Book Quote by Lucy Corin

When I'm reading a book, I don't notice the passing of time.

— Liza Soberano

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

— Eduardo Galeano

“Perhaps I just feel safer with the history that’s been more or less agreed upon. Or perhaps it’s that same paradox again: the history…

— Julian Barnes

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

— Maya Lin

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

— Paul Valery

“That’s another enigma about memory, more basic than all the rest: do recollections have some measurable temporal volume? do they unfold over a span…

— Milan Kundera

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

— John Henrik Clarke

“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so…

— M.R. Carey

“For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the time-stones of…

— John Steinbeck

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes…

— Andre Gide

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

— William Gibson

“In general, one's memories of any period must necessarily weaken as one moves away from it. One is constantly learning new facts, and old…

— George Orwell