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There is a certain seductiveness about what is dead. It will retain all those admirable qualities of life with none of that tiresome messiness associa...more

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Very often history is a means of denying the past. Denying the past is to refuse to recognise its integrity. To fit it, force it, function it, to suck...more

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History is a madman's museum.

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Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not, depending on the tide. History is a collection of...more

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The past is magnetic. It draws us in.

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There is always a city. There is always a civilisation. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the ...more

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There is always a city. There is always a civilization. There is always a barbarian with a pickaxe. Sometimes you are the city, sometimes you are the ...more

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Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the art of the past, except as histor...more