The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. -Peter Conrad

 

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.


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This quote is just one of 4 total Peter Conrad quotes in our collection. Peter Conrad is known for saying 'The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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
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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

Peter Conrad
167
The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and priced open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again. -Peter Conrad
150

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Peter Conrad
70