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Terry Pratchett

"When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present."

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"When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present."

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"In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory."

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