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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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"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."
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"The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."
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"The past is a shadow; the present is real."
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"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."
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"Your past does not define you, your present does."
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"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."
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"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."
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"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations."
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"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."
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"Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."
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"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
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"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction."
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"The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."
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"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are."
Life

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
Men

"Failure too is a form of death."
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"Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing."
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