“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
Source: The Storyteller
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Jodi Picoult 595
Author 1966Related quotes

“There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.”

“History is is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 39

“Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 9

“There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.”
“Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war.”
Hardball with Chris Matthews, November 16 2004
2000s

The reference to "Give a Damn" could be to a song by Spanky & Our Gang or a subsequent song of the same title http://www.noelpaulstookey.com/01-06.html by Paul Stookey.
Rolling Stone interview (1968)