K. W. Jeter Quotes

To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.

K. W. Jeter

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  K. W. Jeter
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Past