quotes about Footnotes
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The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.
-- Elizabeth HardwickSource : Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage
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If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.
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I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
-- Martha GellhornSource : "Fictional character: Martha Gellhorn". "Hemingway & Gellhorn", www.imdb.com. 2012.
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History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
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[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
-- Will CuppySource : "Birds Who Can't Even Fly". "How to Attract the Wombat". Book by Will Cuppy, 1949.