“I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.” — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
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“Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?” — Diane Setterfield, Bellman & Black
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“The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use.” — Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
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“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.” — Edward Thomas, Early One Morning
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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