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"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
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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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"Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor."
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"Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified."
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"How do you know that past exist?"
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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."
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"The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback."
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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
Want
"I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction."
Fiction
"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
Past
"I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement."
History
"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."
Art
"I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not."
Change
"Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm."
Want
"We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible."
Bible
"The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss."
Change
"I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children."
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