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Derek Walcott

"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."

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Akiroq Brost

"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."

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"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."

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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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Akiroq Brost

"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."

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"Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks."

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"In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it."

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Akiroq Brost

"What is past is prologue."

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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."

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Akiroq Brost

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

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"Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it."

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Derek Walcott
"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."

Language

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Derek Walcott
"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."

Cities

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Derek Walcott
"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."

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Derek Walcott
"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."

Love

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Derek Walcott
"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."

Past

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Derek Walcott
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."

History

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Derek Walcott
"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."

Heaven

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Derek Walcott
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."

Athens

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Derek Walcott
"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."

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Derek Walcott
"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."

Writing

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