#story

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#been #covered #fashion #high #history

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#agree #aspects #even #going #humorous

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.' ↗

— James Belushi

#avalanche #celebrity #comes #complicated #death

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#always #assassination #boy #coffin #father

I'm not sure history has ended. ↗

— John Bolton

#history #i #sure

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#feeling #history #light #matter #older

It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That’s not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#past #nature

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#american history #both #cliches #election #every

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say? ↗

— David Graeber

#democracy #history #politics #equality

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#storyteller #writers