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“All history was at first oral.”
“Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...”
“History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.”
“History is an agreed-upon fiction.”
“History is a game played backwards only.”
“by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.”
“The long historian of my country's woes.”
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”
“If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.”
“Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.”
“The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.”
“History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.”
“There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.”
“Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.”
“Every generation tailors history to its taste.”
“You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.”
“Completeness is rare in history.”
“The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.”