“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”– Franz Kafka Related Quotes “The expression ‘there is nothing like the good old days’ does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.”— Ernesto Sabato “I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world’s. Most of us do likewise. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We’re not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar”— Mal Peet “Just a little off the top!”- A. Boleyn”— Robert Lynn Asprin