"If history starts as a guest list, it……" — Sarah Churchwell
"If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary."
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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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History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
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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 Blurred Quotes
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge…
— Aeschylus
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When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong ... Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph…
— Phil Robertson
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I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at…
— Albert Claude
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On whether Blurred Lines' video is sexist: I don't. I really appreciate the people who watch out for that stuff,…
— Emily Ratajkowski
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We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation…
— Unknown Author
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You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.
— C.S. Lewis
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...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature;…
— James Hansen
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People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna's wearing f-ckin' leather jackets, and it's really…
— Taylor Momsen
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In the final analysis the hierarchic pattern is nothing like the straightforward witness for organic evolution that is commonly assumed.…
— Michael Denton
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The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and…
— Jean Genet
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The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy…
— Gayle Forman
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