#tory

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#time #defeat

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it ↗

— George Santayana

#lesson #life #past #repeat #life

So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life. ↗

— Amy Tan

#mystery #life

Not everyone's life will be a great love story. ↗

— Scott Hutchins

#love #love-story #life

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread. ↗

— Janet Wallach

#history #writers #life

Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package. ↗

— Robert Kanigel

#computer-algebra-system #history #math #ramanujan #life

I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#life #ordinary #record #story #winter

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story. ↗

— Michael Martone

#story #writing #life

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed. ↗

— Vasily Grossman

#human-nature #life #life

you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#time #life