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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth.
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
