Gretel Ehrlich Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Gretel Ehrlich (1989). “Heart Mountain”, Vintage

• There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Curves, Long, Racism

  Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Heart Mountain: A Novel”, p.38, Open Road Media

• History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  History, Records, Stories

  Gretel Ehrlich (1989). “Heart Mountain”, Vintage

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