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Quote by Edith Sitwell
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. – Edith Sitwell

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy. – Edith Sitwell

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[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. – Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History

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For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado. – Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary

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History takes time. History makes memory. – Gertrude Stein

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History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler. – Henry Glassie

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