Author: Sarah Churchwell

Quotes

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

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

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