The past is magnetic. It draws us in. — Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook
The past is magnetic. It draws us in. — Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook
The past is magnetic. It draws us in. — Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook
The past is magnetic. It draws us in. — Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook
The past is magnetic. It draws us in. — Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook
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The past is magnetic. It draws us in.

— Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook
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More “History” Quotes

The historian is a prophet looking backwards. — Friedrich Schlegel, Philosophical Fragments
Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. — Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. — H.L. Mencken
Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful one — Peter Hitchens
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You've got to become them."(Speaking about researching, and r — David McCullough, John Adams
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple t — Freeman Dyson, Infinite in All Directions
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its — Simon Schama, Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history. — Helen Thomas
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill — Mark Twain
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending — John William Draper, History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. — Salman Rushdie, Shame
History is a vast early warning system. — Norman Cousins