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Jack Kerouac quote: "So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in..."
So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines. Jack Kerouac
John Updike quote: "What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in..."
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine? John Updike
Brian Tracy quote: "The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price..."
The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past. Brian Tracy
I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry? all of the past you read is usually quite great? but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side. Frank O'Hara
The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult...So much only of life as I know by experience...The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store? Thomas Hardy
Morelli smiled. "It could have been Jenny Ragucci. That makes much more sense. I had good luck with sluts."I looked over at him. All in the past," Morelli said. "I'm a cupcake man now."Whoa, dude," Mooner said. "That's so, like, cosmic. Janet Evanovich
Charles Dickens quote: "It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some..."
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Charles Dickens
All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that... Joss Whedon
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions. Isaac Asimov
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your..."
How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things? Rainer Maria Rilke
To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others. Giovanni Boccaccio
Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself. Tom Stoppard
Although in the past I had seen a few exchanges of genuine affection between them, the Warshaw men were awkward and ill at ease with each other. Michael Chabon
John Keats quote: "I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and..."
I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence. John Keats

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