“The more data we possess, the less we know what it means.” — Lewis H. Lapham, The Art of Editing No. 4, the Paris Review (Summer 2019)
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“The internet works against historical consciousness because the new and newer news comes so quickly to hand that it buries all thought of what happened yesterday or the day before in an avalanche of data.” — Lewis H. Lapham, The Art of Editing No. 4, the Paris Review (Summer 2019)
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“It’s what saves us, the knowledge and sense of history, what saves us from the delusions of omniscience and omnipotence, from misplaced faith in money and machines.” — Lewis H. Lapham, The Art of Editing No. 4, The Paris Review (Summer 2019)
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“That’s what history is. It’s a conversation between the past and the present.” — Lewis H. Lapham, The Art of Editing No. 4, The Paris Review (Summer 2019)
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“A lot of my life has been learning what I’m not.” — Lewis H. Lapham, The Art of Editing No. 4, The Paris Review (Summer 2019)
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“The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.” — Lewis H. Lapham, Money And Class In America
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