Quotes About Continuity

There are silences that can be heard, even from the dead and from the severely oppressed. Much is recoverable from an apparently forgotten past. Sensitive and faithful historians can learn much of what has been lost, and much therefore that can be continued.

Infinite players regard their wins and losses in whatever finite games they play as but moments in continuing play.

Infinite players die. Since the boundaries of death are always part of the play, the infinite player does not die at the end of play, but in the course of play.

infinite players offer their death as a way of continuing the play. For that reason they do not play for their own life; they live for their own play. But since that play is always with others, it is evident that infinite players both live and die for the continuing life of others.

Solo ciò che cambia può continuare.

Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance.

There are variations in the quality of deviation; not all divergence from the past is culturally significant. Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance. Greater significance attaches to those variations that bring the tradition into view in a new way, allowing the familiar to be seen as unfamiliar, as requiring a new appraisal of all that we have been—and therefore of all that we are.

As we have seen, because an infinite game cannot be brought to an end, it cannot be repeated. Unrepeatability is a characteristic of culture everywhere.

Remember: what you are, we were. What we are, you will become.

A continuity isn't necessarily right, just because it's a continuity.' 'Yes, Ella, it is. It is. Believe me, it is

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.

You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.

You could return to that same hive a thousand years later and there would be just the same perception of tomorrow as never being any different. Humans are completely different. We assume tomorrow is another world.

The past is the father of the present.

The new world was the same as the old. The houses were different, the streets were called Closes, the clothes were different, the voices were different, but the human beings were the same as they always had been. And though using slightly different phraseology, the subjects of conversation were the same.

But to everything that happens there has to be a past. A past which is by now incorporated in today, but which existed yesterday or last month or last year. The present is nearly always rooted in the past.

The past is the father of the present," said Poirot sententiously. He

None of it matters, these steps to look completely different, to be completely different. She's still her. She'll always be her.

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

History is just one fucking thing after another.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.