Hunter S. Thompson quote — “History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even w…”

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History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time — and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas generation history

Howard Zinn history people

History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a r…

Christopher Bram Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Cha… history writers

History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of …

James Howard Kunstler day moving people