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Quote by Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. – Jessamyn West

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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. – Jessamyn West

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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasnt everything. – Albert Camus

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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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

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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. – Edwin Powell Hubble

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. – Phillips Brooks

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