"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."

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"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."

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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

History, Execution, Fire, Destruction

"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

History, Memory, Change, Corruption, Future

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

History, Men

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

History,

"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

History, Causes, Ignorance, Slander

"The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy."

John Green, American Author

History, Empathy, Learning, Experience

"Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

History, Growth, Faith, Change

"Every past is worth condemning."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

History, Past, Judgment, Mistake

"Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living. that's the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn't matter if it's a hundred years or only a few weeks. It's all filed away, fresh as the day it went under the covers."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

History, Memory, Time, Legacy

"For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

History, Truth, People, Memory

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"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."

Past,

"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition."

Writing, First, Poems, Tradition

"Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book."

Hope, Deep, Mourning

"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."

Politics, Opponents, Want

"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."

Hope, Books, Will

"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."

Books, First, Poems

"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

Poet, Poets, Words

"Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children."

Family, Children, Fiction

"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."

Fact, Research, Years

"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."

History,