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I wrote fairy tales because the Fairy Tale seemed the ideal Form for the stuff I had to say. Then of course the Man in me began to have his turn. I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralyzed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. As obligation to feel can freeze... C. S. Lewis
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no..."
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you. Chuck Palahniuk
They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why. You're opening yourself up, Roark, for each and every one of them."But I never notice the people in the streets. Ayn Rand
If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down. Nadine Gordimer
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from... Flannery O'Connor
Isaac Asimov quote: "Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past...."
Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation! Isaac Asimov
Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents. Pablo Picasso
Haruki Murakami quote: "What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of..."
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past. Haruki Murakami
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb..."
When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy. Elizabeth Gilbert
PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something. Gene Roddenberry
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something. Leo Tolstoy
If the stars twinkled more than usual on any given night, it meant that the angels in heaven were happy and were flitting across the doors of heaven; and since stars were merely holes ventilating heaven, the twinkling came from the angels flitting past the holes that admitted air into the holy home of God. Richard Wright
Gerard Way quote: "You can sleep in a coffin,but the past aint through with you!"
You can sleep in a coffin,but the past aint through with you! Gerard Way
He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the future was unimportant, only today existed, and even today merely unfolded, minute by minute. Judith Krantz
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors. Terence McKenna

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