If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. (Sarah Churchwell)

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

Sarah Churchwell

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