History Quote by Martha Cooley

““I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.””

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“With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than one definition. ”

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“Librarians, too, are gatekeepers -- not of actual experience, of course, but of its written accounts. My job is to safeguard those accounts. Not…

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“Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.”

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“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a…

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“I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.”

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Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

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