Commonplace Book

'...History is a creative art, a putty nose. You can make what you like of it. Event, immediately it is past, becomes a changing simulacrum at the mercy of all the minds through which it must seep if it is to live, memory passed from hand to hand, coloured with prejudice, embroidered with fantasy, flattened with pedantry, and finally served up in all seriousness as history.'

from Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by M. Barnard Eldershaw (Part I, Chapter I)