"The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."

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"Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one."

Bob Saget, American Actor

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"What was the point of spying if you couldn't keep it a secret?"

Thea Harrison, American Author

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"I'm really obsessed with the past."

Fisher Stevens, American Actor

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"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."

Elvis Costello, British Musician

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"In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen."

Jacky Ickx, Belgian Celebrity

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"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."

John Jay Chapman, American Poet

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"I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage."

Angus Young, Scottish Musician

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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"You cannot survive if you do not know the past."

Oriana Fallaci, Italian Journalist

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"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."

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"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."

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"Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous."

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"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."

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"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."

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"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."

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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."

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