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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
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
— Haruki Murakami
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
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
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
. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.
— George MacDonald Fraser
They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.
— Cinda Williams Chima
