| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 72c0f89 | Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened. | retrospection mistakes | Gregory David Roberts | |
| da3e701 | So it comes about that the war [World War I] seems, to us, to have been fought less over territory than the way it would be remembered, that the war's true subject is remembrance. Indeed the whole war -- which was being remembered even as it was fought, whose fallen were being remembered before they fell -- seems not so much to be tinted by retrospect as to have been fought retrospectively. | war retrospection wwi | Geoff Dyer |