John W. Gardner Quotes | History never looks like history when you are...

"History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable."

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As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

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History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

— John Barth

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