History: a collection of epitaphs. – Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

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

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. – V. S. Naipaul

History does not unfold: it piles up. – Robert M. Adams, Bad Mouth