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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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"What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim."
Past
"I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect."
Body
"I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves."
History
"Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere."
Wisdom
"Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body."
Nature
"Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female."
Woman
"A story is told as much by silence as by speech."
Silence
"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
Argument
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