E. L. Doctorow Quote

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.


Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992 (ed. Perennial, 1994)


We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.