"History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible."

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Source : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.33, Vintage

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#Past Quotes #Voice Quotes #Listening Quotes

“As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.”
“Rap music is really good when youâ€™re traumatized,”

Source : "Kim Gordon Sounds Off" By Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. April 22, 2013.
“A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.”
“Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.”
“I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.”
“Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.”
“There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).”

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