Past Quotes
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Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.
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As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's running backward or if it's running backward. I think disorientating a reader a bit can be really nice. Making them work and bringing their own past to play in a novel.
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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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Let go of your past, but never forget what it has taught you.
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Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.
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Future is everything that past has forgotten.
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I write with my past, about the future, for the present.
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I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting them back into their original landscapes, we can all make a living link between this millennium and the next, a natural bridge from the past to the future.
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What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.
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We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
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To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.
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Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
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The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
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People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
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How can you fully open your heart to someone new, when in fact...what you really need is closure from your past.
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You find new love not to forget the past love. But you forget the past because of that new love.
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[Students] are also accustomed to having quick access to information. The idea of "storing" data in their heads can seem pointless. I find that they are also much more interested in learning through problem solving and group collaboration than in the past.
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The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.
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I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.
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It's funny how the present can change the past.
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The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.
