"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."

-- Julian Barnes

#Memories Quotes #Imperfection Quotes #Documentation Quotes

“Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.”
“Well, thats the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.”
“Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.”
“It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.”
“If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.”

Source : David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.153
“I've always said I'm going to get married only once.”
“No path back home is better than any other path.”
“I had a really regular progression--and this is really pleasant, I think--because I had small parts in TV movies, then bigger parts in TV movies, and then small parts in films. And I think this allows you to get...experience of the set and to get familiar with [the process]. And as I had a really slow progression, I think it really helped me to stay lucid and not get carried away.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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