"History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past."

-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Past Quotes #Names Quotes #People Quotes

“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.”
“I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world.”
“Movements are overrated and invented by the press. Ask any artist if they feel or felt part of a movement - the good ones will all say no.”
“True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.”
“Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.”
“It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!”
“You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.”

Source : Julie Kagawa (2013). “The Immortal Rules”, p.144, Harlequin
“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”

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