Louis Moreau Gottschalk famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
History is not history unless it is the truth.
A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?

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