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"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations."
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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."

"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."

"There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past."

"Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken."
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"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are."

"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."
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"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."

"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."

"Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all."
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