The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
-A.
Whitney Brown
The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.
-David
McCullough
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it
isn't here.
-Finley Peter Dunne
The past beats inside me like a second heart.
-John Banville
The past can only be known, not changed. The future can only be changed,
not known.
-Steward Brand
The past has a terror and fascination and a beauty beyond almost
anything else.
-Pauline Kael
The past has meaning as it lights up the present, and the future as it
makes the present richer and more profound.
-Rollo May
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
-L.P.
Hartley
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
-Thomas Holcroft
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope.
Love of the past implies faith in the future.
-Stephen Ambrose
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
-Max
Beerbohm
The past is always a rebuke to the present.
-Robert Penn Warren
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking
sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
-James Thurber
The past is gone; the present is confusing; and the future scares the
hell out of me.
-David L. Stein
The past is just something that's over.
-Christopher Isherwood
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
-William Faulkner
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the
future.
-Jessamyn West
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
-Barry
Humphries
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
-Cyril Connolly
The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.
-Stanley R.
Delaney
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself
you remember, or pretend you remember.
-Harold Pinter
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting,
animating and stirring to action.
-Felix Adler
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