"Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Vices Quotes #Hindsight Quotes #Historian Quotes

“Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.”
“So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.”
“In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.”
“...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].”
“We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.”

Source : William Kittredge (1996). “Who Owns the West?”
“People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.”
“I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.”
“The I is the soul, which endures.”

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