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"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."
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"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."
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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 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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"The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens."
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"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."
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"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."
Books
"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."
Hope
"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."
Past
"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
Books
"However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned."
Writing
"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
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"I was always influenced by language."
Language
"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."
Time
"I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing."
Influence
"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."
Past
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