E L Doctorow Famous Quotes



"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."

"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."


E L Doctorow Quotations






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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams

Nature is God's greatest evangelist.
Johathan Edwards

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's real in politics is what the voters decide is real.
Unknown

"I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The reason of a resolution is more to be considered than the resolution itself.
John Holt

"Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information."
Mark Twain

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Theresa

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
Carl Gustav Jung

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill