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Norman Maclean quote: "time was just a hangover from the past with no present meaning"
time was just a hangover from the past with no present meaning Norman Maclean
Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow. Jay-Z
It is a great feeling to know that from a window. I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door. Gregory Corso
As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized ... Noam Chomsky
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door. Michael Ondaatje
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos. Tom Wolfe
After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward. Leo Buscaglia
We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two. I think maybe we learn a few things each time that we don't forget. A few things that stick with us. It's just hard to pass those things on to those who come after us because if they didn't live through it, they don't view it the same way we do. If you... Terry Brooks
John Grisham quote: "I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening."
I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening. John Grisham
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be. Alan Paton
It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in theri past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world. Dave Pelzer
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments. Leo Tolstoy
What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the fall of Athens, of Rome, a long pause will intervene, caused by the exhaustion of consciousness itself. Humanity, to rejoin the past, must invent a second naivet, without which the arts can never begin again. Emile M. Cioran
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided. Robert Louis Stevenson
The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor. Fiona Apple

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