Key Quotations (AQA A-Level English Literature A): Flashcards

'Children, it's all in the telling'

A statement reflecting on the act of storytelling itself

History accounts for actions both done with incomplete knowledge

One-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; mirrors time experience

Flatness, vacancy, emptiness - stripped of romantic illusion

Seamus Heaney

Human vigilance & moral responsibility; Sisyphean effort

Only at the point where things go wrong

History discipline and storytelling's moral necessity

A state of doubt or uncertainty about knowledge