If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes blur drunken end
There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it. Sarah Churchwell sesamestreetteach Change image and share on social
Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations. Sarah Churchwell calculationcommodityconfer share on social
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction. Sarah Churchwell calldisenfranchisementdistraction share on social
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. George Bernard Shaw believerdrunkenfact Change image and share on social
I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed. Irvin D. Yalom blurcharactercreate share on social
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle. Mike Tyson beginbookcycle Change image and share on social