History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
History is history.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
History is more interesting than most people think.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.