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What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves - the music of our being - which is transformed by some into...more

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Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

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History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

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Our nights are different. She falls asleep like someone yielding to the gentle tug of a warm tide, and floats with confidence till morning. I fall asl...more

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Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island, they had learnt how...more

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If a memory wasn't a thing but a memory of a memory of a memory, mirrors set in parallel, then what the brain told you now about what it claimed had h...more

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The past is a distant, receding coastline, and we are all in the same boat. Along the stern rail there is a line of telescopes; each brings the shore ...more

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Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortab...more

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Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

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What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?''History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly.'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that...more

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If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in ...more

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you find yourself repeating, ‘They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays.

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Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?

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...I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.

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Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of me...more