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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early st

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. – Rebecca West

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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a persons mind. – Rebecca West

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West

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Once you get into this great stream of history, you cant get out. – Richard M. Nixon

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato, Ion

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It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths. – Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Western World

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To people who remember JFKs assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his fathers coffin. – Michael Beschloss

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