- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's obviously games and a history you have with guys that maybe you're a little more fired up to let them know if maybe you beat them on a play.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.
- Bounded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot not know history.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.
- Shaving
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The selfie is revolutionary to me. It is, I think, the only point in history where masses of young girls and women have been able to control, create, and publish images of themselves.
- Funeral
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- Nov 07, 2020