Famous quotes containing the words history and/or conditions:
“History takes time.... History makes memory.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)