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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. -- Teju Cole
The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge. -- Pat Barker
Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration. -- A.C. Grayling
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. -- Russell Hoban
People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others. -- M. E. W. Sherwood
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself. -- Cormac McCarthy
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
What's left is palimpsest"?one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it. -- Natasha Trethewey

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