“Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.”

—  Conor Cruise O'Brien

In Irish Times, Dublin (July 15, 1969) ; as quoted in The Columbia Book of Quotations, ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press (1993), p. 900 : ISBN 0231071949, 9780231071949

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