{"quotes":[{"text":"Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["archives","fiction","historical","material","writer","writing"],"id":9718,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["archives","cultural","diaries","history","interpretation","letters","social"],"id":23245,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ( “Not without the past”).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["alienation","archives","bad-feelings","benchmarking","consulting","crucial","evaluation","future","granary","history","memory","mind","past","store"],"id":48407,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["archives","clues","daily-life","everyday","future","history","past","present","treasure"],"id":52540,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["archives","blockbusters","communication","connection","diaries","genre","letters","moved","writing"],"id":77805,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... You will be happier and I will be satisfied.","author":"Radovan Kavický","tags":["2009","archives","economics","euro","politics","public-finance"],"id":82470,"author_id":"Radovan+Kavick%C3%BD"},{"text":"Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["archives","disasters","documents","heritage","history","libraries","preservation","records","value"],"id":103930,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers on these shelves, contained in tiny, abstract black marks on sheets of paper, were voices from the past. Voices that reached into the future, into Claire's own heart and mind, to tell her what they knew, what they'd learned, what they'd seen, what they'd felt. Wasn't that magic?","author":"Christi Phillips","tags":["archives","magic","old-books","voices"],"id":140629,"author_id":"Christi+Phillips"},{"text":"Historical gap is created due to missing written records.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","archives","books","documentation","education","gaps","history","inspiring","missing","record-keeping","self-motivation","university","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita","write","writing"],"id":142376,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"This seems to me absolutely one of the quintessential things about the human condition. It’s what actually distinguishes man from any other animal: living with those who have lived and the companionship of those who are no longer alive. Not necessarily the people that one knew personally, I mean the people perhaps whom one only knows by what they did, or what they left behind, this question of the company of the past, that’s what interests me, and archives are a kind of site in the sense of like an archaeological site.","author":"John Berger","tags":["archives","death","memory","post-mortem"],"id":150005,"author_id":"John+Berger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}