“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.” — Edward Thomas, Early One Morning
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“The future arrives and becomes the past.” — Yahooey
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“He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back — its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.” — Gish Jen, Typical American
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“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present.” — Shashi Tharoor, Inglorious Empire
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“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.” — Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” — Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of Morning“, First inauguration of President Bill Clinton (1993-01-20)
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“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.” — Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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“The only reason for writing history, I think,is so we can try to understand the present. Because of that, the questions it seems relevant to us to ask about the past are informed by our experience of the present. You’re asking the past different questions from what people did fifty years ago, or will be doing in another fifty years.” — Pat Barker, The Art of Fiction No. 243, The Paris Review (Winter 2018)
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“That’s what history is. It’s a conversation between the past and the present.” — Lewis H. Lapham, The Art of Editing No. 4, The Paris Review (Summer 2019)
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