After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts — like a Chinese nest of boxes — oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front — in our ancestors, back and back until...
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Anonymous
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
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Shirley Abbott
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.
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Laurence Overmire
Our names were made for us in another century.
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Richard Brautigan
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port
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Anatole Broyard
More Quotes By Alexander Dumas
My father was a Creole his father a Negro and his father a monkey my family it seems begins where yours left off.
