Deborah Pickstone
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Lemony Snicket
“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
Lemony Snicket

Hannah Kent
“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

Ian Mortimer
“‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.”
Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Tennessee Williams
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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