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Rick's memory turned to fantasy as his mind took a different path than what reality had already turned into history.
— Brenda Cothern
Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.
— Howard Fast
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
— Umberto Eco
People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
— Christopher Paolini
History is the memory of a nation
— Thomas Sowell
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
— Roger Zelazny
Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years.
— Mary McAleese
History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.
— T.L. Rese
History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?
— Alastair Reynolds
Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.
— Ralph Webster
I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.
— Miranda Richmond Mouillot
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.
— Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
— Jean-Henri Fabre
They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.
— Cinda Williams Chima
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.
— Malcolm X
You can fool history sometimes, but you can't fool the memory of your intimates.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.
— Julian B. Barbour
He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.
— James Carl Nelson
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
— Tony Judt
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
— Julian Barnes
Only the vanquished remember history.
— Marshall McLuhan
It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.
— Katherine Ann Porter