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“Our life stories help us integrate our experiences and understand our place in the world. They give coherence and direction to our lives. ( "Everybody his story")”

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“Lydia is constantly reminded that her education has no purchase here, that she has no access to the kind of information that has real currency on this journey. Among migrants, everyone knows more than she does. How do you find a coyote, make sure he's reputable, pay for your crossing, all without getting ripped off?”

Knowledge Migration Refugees Migrants Book Smarts Street Smarts

Book:American Dirt

Source: American Dirt

“Looking down on their glossy heads, I realized that they were indeed threatened; they were simply unaware of it. We are all vulnerable.”

History Historian Dark Academia Dracula The Historian

Book:The Historian

Source: The Historian

“A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?”

Historian Bank

Book:Neptune's Brood

Source: Neptune's Brood

“Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are -- honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do. -- City of Stairs”

Historian City Of Stairs

Author:Robert Jackson Bennett

“I remembered attending one of Dr. Kerry's lectures, which he had begun by writing, "Who writes history?" on the blackboard. I remembered how strange the question had seemed to me then. My idea of a historian was not human; it was of someone like my father, more prophet than man, whose visions of the past, like those of the future, could not be questioned, or even augmented. Now, as I passed through King's college, in the shadow of the enormous chapel, my old diffidence seemed almost funny. Who writes history? I thought. I do.”

History Historian Historical Narrative

Book:Educated

Source: Educated

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