William Faulkner on history

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Clocks slay time. … Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

Adolf Hitler1889–1945

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S. Truman1884–1972