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Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday. — Howard Fast

History is the memory of things said and done. — Carl L. Becker

I am to die steeped in treasonous guilt, my name cursed, my memory unmourned and my service to The Kingdom blotted from history. — Paul W.S. Bowler

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. — Roger Zelazny

For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget. — Stant Litore

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory. — Haruki Murakami

Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260 — Donna Tartt

The past was a minefield about which few maps seemed to agree. And why should that surprise me? It's a big place.
p. 30 — Danilo Kis

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory — George Santayana

Author complains about the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present. — George F. Will

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history. — Omar Musa

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit. — Michael Ondaatje

It is important to leave behind a rich and memorable legacy than just accumulated history! — Sanjai Velayudhan

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important! — Henry Steele Commager

Memory is the most potent truth.
Show me history untouched by memories
and you show me lies. — Carlos Eire

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history. — Doris Lessing

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living. — John Smith

There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened. — Karen Joy Fowler

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better. — I.L. Peretz

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. — Tony Judt

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? — Alanis Morissette

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively

There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments. — Anne Michaels

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance. — Martha Grimes

Beneath history, memory and forgetting
Beneath memory and forgetting, life. — Paul Ricoeur

. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time. — George MacDonald Fraser

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there. — Toni Morrison

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