Mary

“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."

[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
― David McCullough

“If you want to learn about the beauty of our humanity and about the dignity of a human being, you study the arts. That is what mankind has left behind to acknowledge his mere existence on this Earth. We're the only creature alive that does that.”
― Aurelia Hartenberger

“History is a creative process (or as Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “a set of lies agreed upon”). The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.”
― Chuck Klosterman, But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past

“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers