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I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.
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Glen Cook |
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"you know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said. I looked at him. He said, "her punishment is being her,"
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growing-up
past-and-present
punishment
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Curtis Sittenfeld |
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The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.
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inspirational
joy
memories
memory
pain
past-and-present
pleasure
reality
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Orson Scott Card |
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The origin of illness may be in the past, but the virulent crisis must be dynamically tackled. I believe in attacking the core of the illness, through its present symptoms, quickly, directly. The past is a labyrinth. One does not have to step into it and move step by step through every turn and twist. The past reveals itself instantly, in today's fever or abscess of the soul.
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madness
neurosis
past-and-present
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Anaïs Nin |
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The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
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past-and-present
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P.D. James |
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He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.
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past
past-and-present
present
time
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Larry McMurtry |
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"The formula for this brand of "historical" writing is to put the public on the inside; to let them feel the palpitations of royal and imperial lovers and to overhear their lispings and cooings. It can be argued that a man has to live somewhere, and that if his own time is so cut up by rapid change that he can't find a cranny big enough to relax in, then he must betake himself to the past. That is certainly one motive in the production of historical romance, from Sir Walter Scott to Thornton Wilder. But mainly this formula works as a means of flattery. The public is not only invited inside but encouraged to believe that there is nothing inside that differs from its own thoughts and feelings. This reassurance is provided by endowing historical figures with the sloppiest possible minds. The great are "humanized" by being trivial. The debunking school began by making the great appear as corrupt, or mean and egotistical. The "humanizers" have merely carried on to make them idiotic. "Democratic" vanity has reached such proportions that it cannot accept as human anything above the level of cretinous confusion of mind of the type popularized by Hemingway's heroes. Just as the new star must be made to appear successful by reason of some freak of fortune, so the great, past or present, must be made to seem so because of the most ordinary qualities, to which fortune adds an unearned trick or idea." --
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fiction
historical-fiction
nostalgia
past
past-and-present
rapid-change
relaxation
time
truth
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Marshall McLuhan |
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The whole of China was overshadowed by the injustice of the past.
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henning-mankell
past-and-present
past-quotes
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Henning Mankell |