"Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word."
― Mason Cooley
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- "Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, ‘What happened?’ but rather, ‘How then shall I live?’ And it’s only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins."― Jonathan Sacks
- "I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is."― Hugh Laurie
- "The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down."― A. Whitney Brown