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“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.”
― But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past
― But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past
“...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.”
― The Sparrow
― The Sparrow
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