Past Quotes
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Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.
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I don't care about the past.
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We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
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I've been in relationships in the past where communication wasn't great, and when it is, it makes it so much easier to talk to each other.
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Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.
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I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
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My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
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There will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power, or any other of the separate alliances through which in the unhappy past the nations strove to safeguard their security or promote their interest.
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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past,A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.
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He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past.
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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
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We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.
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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
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If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.
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Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.
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I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.
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I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.
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While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
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For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.
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Harry Dresden: Tonight you will be visited by three spirits, the ghosts of indictment past, present and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.'
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.
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Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.
