Author: Sarah Churchwell

Quotes

History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares.

History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares.

- Sarah Churchwell

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

- Sarah Churchwell

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

- Sarah Churchwell

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