Creative Quote by Mason Cooley

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter…

— Elia Suleiman

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

— Marie Howe

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

— Niall Ferguson

History becomes easier to remember once you start playing a significant part in it.

— Christopher Abraham

“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much…

— Peter Geye

“Memory is a poet, not a historian.”

— Paul Geraldy

If history is written by victors, then memory is written by losers.

— Saed Kakei

Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,…

— Henry Giroux

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

— Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

— Frank Herbert