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“It's said that ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance is this: a vine that
sneaks up a tree, killing not by
poison, but by blocking out its
light.”
― Call Us What We Carry
Ignorance is this: a vine that
sneaks up a tree, killing not by
poison, but by blocking out its
light.”
― Call Us What We Carry
“Anxiety is a living body,
Poised beside us like a shadow.
It is the last creature standing,
The only beast who loves us
Enough to stay.”
― Call Us What We Carry
Poised beside us like a shadow.
It is the last creature standing,
The only beast who loves us
Enough to stay.”
― Call Us What We Carry
“History is not fathered, it is cultivated, ever-growing, ever-changing, and most importantly it is pruned and trimmed by those who uncover it from the shade.”
― Cleopatra
― Cleopatra
“History isn’t only a subject; it’s also a method. My method is, generally, to let the dead speak for themselves. I’ve pressed their words between these pages, like flowers, for their beauty, or like insects, for their hideousness. The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist; it is the work of the sleuth and the storyteller, the philosopher and the scientist, the keeper of tales, the sayer of sooth, the teller of truth.”
― These Truths: A History of the United States
― These Truths: A History of the United States
“South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum.
[James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]”
― The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
[James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]”
― The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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