“It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
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