"History is prone to mistakes in identity, and……" — Sarah Churchwell
"History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things."
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10 Quotes by Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Churchwell has 10 quotes on this site.
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Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.
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History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have…
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If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party:…
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Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not…
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The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of…
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
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In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline…
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Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps…
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Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration,…
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More Facts Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact…
— Giorgio Armani
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
— Karen Armstrong
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
— Antonin Artaud
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first…
— David Attenborough
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a…
— Chinua Achebe
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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