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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."
"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."
"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
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"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."
"I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate."
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"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."
"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."
"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."
"Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster."
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