Anne Michaels - History Quotes

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History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

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Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

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Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

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