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“Lookin' back is a bad habit.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“The historian’s task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always an uncomfortable story and explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and live properly. A well organized society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, not one in which we tell pleasant lies about ourselves.”
― Tony Judt

“You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

“Hindsight history, sometimes call counterfactual history, is usually not history at all, but most often a condescending game of oneupmanship in which the living play political tricks on the dead, who are not around to defend themselves.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic