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“I don't always understand poetry!'
'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it...whenever.”
― The History Boys
'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it...whenever.”
― The History Boys
“and I rose up, and knew that I was tired, and continued my journey”
― Light and Twilight
― Light and Twilight
“[talking about the Holocaust]
'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.'
'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.”
― The History Boys
'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.'
'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.”
― The History Boys
“History is just one fucking thing after another.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
“She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this is why we have over-population problems. Why are idiots who annoy dirty chimps being protected?”
― An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
― An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
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