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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. – James Baldwin

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

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

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Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history. – Elizabeth Edwards

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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. – Benito Mussolini

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The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. – Jon Meacham

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