“I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.” — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Tag: present
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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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“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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“A life in the past cannot be shared with the present.” — Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
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“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.” — Kazuo Ishiguro, “Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro,” The Writer (2001-05-05)
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“I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
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“The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.” — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack (1753)
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“You cannot make the present fill the garb of the past … any more than you could make the past fill that of the present.” — Arthur Helps, Friends in Council, First Series
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