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"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?"
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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
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"I don't like to dwell on the past."
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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
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"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
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"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."
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"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
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"In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody."
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"I can't take back the past, but I can fight for the future."
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"He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind, to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything."
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"Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist."
Sex
"Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet."
Talent
"Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle."
Seduction
"My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses."
Politics
"The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair."
Will
"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts."
Civilization
"Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life."
Life
"Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature."
Imagination
"If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis."
Responsibility
"I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity."
History
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