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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your histor

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesnt matter. – V. S. Naipaul

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History is but the nail on which the picture hangs. – Alexandre Dumas, Catherine Howard

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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. – Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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Historian. A broad — gauge gossip. – Ambrose Bierce

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A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, Uncle Toms Cabin and, in modern drama, Larry Kramers The Normal Heart. – Tony Kushner

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