#tory

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself. ↗

— Colin Quinn

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I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos. ↗

— Sun Ra

#black #cosmos #dark #dealing #history

In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

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The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

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To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

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