"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know."

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Source : "Plain Speaking : An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman" by Merle Miller, (p. 26), 1974.

Harry S. Truman

#History Quotes #World Quotes

“Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work-and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification.”
“Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.”
“Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.”
“It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.”
“A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."”
“Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy”
“Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.”

Source : T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press
“My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.”

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