Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Quotations #002

"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them." -- Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun

"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around." -- David Lodge, British Museum (1965)

"All modern wars start in the history classroom." -- Anonymous

"History is neither written nor made without love or hate." -- Theodor Mommsen

"Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves." -- J. B. Priestley

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