All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. Peter Conrad More Quotes by Peter Conrad More Quotes From Peter Conrad Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. Peter Conrad wisdom losing faith death The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. Peter Conrad circumstance accident job promoting