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“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes…

— John Ashbery

“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen…

— Félix J. Palma

“You told me once that history matters, but it's frozen, set in stone. This is part of our history. I can't change it or…

— Cora Carmack Finding It

“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged”.”

— Howard Zinn

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.”

— Michelle Richmond

“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the…

— Frank Herbert

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and…

— Milan Kundera

“I wish to make it clear that ‘history’ in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this…

— Karl R. Popper

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“History has no meaning.”

— Karl R. Popper

“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

— Brian Friel