"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

Events, Journey, Memories, Past

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"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

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"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel."

Howard Stern, American Entertainer

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"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, American Writer

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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue."

Peter Ackroyd, British Author

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"I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler."

Wilford Brimley, American Actor

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"There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened."

Madeleine Stowe, American Actress

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"Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last."

Mercy Otis Warren, American Playwright

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"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."

Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist

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