"Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what...
The past is magnetic. It draws us in.
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"Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How ...
"Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How ...
"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...
"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...
"History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
"The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is...
"History is a madman's museum.
"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...
"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 ...
"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 ...
"the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.
"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...