“We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.”
“I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.”
“Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.”
“We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.”
“What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.”
“What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.”