Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.
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You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.
Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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