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“When someone dies, we spend so much time looking for an explanation. The rest of the time we spend making sure we won't forget them. So we build statues. Hold memorials. Visit graves. All of these physical markers that make it impossible to forget. But what if it's the opposite? What if the only way we can really remember is if we stop looking to the past? Maybe then they'll become more them and less us.”
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“And most of all, Jane, fuck you for leaving me here alone. For showing me happiness and then taking it all away.”
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“Oh yeah, Burgerville's history will make you rethink everything you know about the past. And reality for that matter”
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“History isn't a straight line from the beginning to the end. You've got to study everything in between. That's where the real answers are.”
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“I realize the main problem with history. You can talk about it. Analyze it. Dissect it. Study it. Put it in a museum. But you can never, ever, no matter how hard you try, relive it. By its very definition, it's over as soon as it happens.
Meanwhile, life moves on.”
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Meanwhile, life moves on.”
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“I'm starting to realize that each what contains a multitude of whys. That history is only a word for academics; it surrounds us, all of the pieces floating in space, able to be built and rebuilt like a game of Jenga.”
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“For someone who'd lived his whole life moving backward, slow felt like a hundred miles per hour.”
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“You really think all that stuff you say about history applies to life?" she said. "Like if you understand it better, it somehow changes things?"
I nodded. "I think so. We choose which parts to focus on. We exaggerate some, and leave other parts out. But the more stuff we include, the truer it becomes.”
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I nodded. "I think so. We choose which parts to focus on. We exaggerate some, and leave other parts out. But the more stuff we include, the truer it becomes.”
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“Maybe I can use my powers of history to actually make a change.”
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“Fine as in fine? Or fine as in I-don't-feel-like-talking-about-my-problems-fine?" "Fine as in we're-all-spinning-a-thousand-miles-an-hour-on-a-piece-of-rock-in-the-middle-of-space-and-we're-on-our-own fine.”
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