History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are. Eamon Duffy More Quotes by Eamon Duffy More Quotes From Eamon Duffy If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new. Eamon Duffy knowing comfort history Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. Eamon Duffy aspect history past We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us. Eamon Duffy heart history past
