Forgetting/history

Famous quotes containing the words forgetting and/or history:

“Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting:
So were it with me if forgetting could be willed.
Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring
Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.”
—George Meredith (1828–1909)

“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)