"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."

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"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."

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

Thea Harrison, American Author

Past, Curiosity, Secrets, Trust, Action

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

John Jay Chapman, American Poet

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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

Past, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Past, History, Truth, Regret, Power

"The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning."

Brian Ferneyhough, British Composer

Past, Questioning, Years

"The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit."

John Joly, Irish Scientist

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"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Past, Letting Go

"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past."

Jacques Delors, French Economist

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"I was always influenced by language."

Language

"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."

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"The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it."

Language

"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."

Books

"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."

Family

"Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight."

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"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."

People

"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."

History

"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."

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"I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place."

Age