"Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word." ― Mason Cooley Topic(s): History More From Mason Cooley "Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little." "Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it." "As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance." More In History "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."― Nikos Kazantzakis "History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."― Alexis de Tocqueville "But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny."― Paul Ricoeur