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“The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player”

Ifs Self Past Player Drama Remembered

Author:Anthony Greenwald

“Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.”

Past Childhood Changed Remembered

Book:Consequences

Source: Consequences

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?”

Thinking World Said Past Remember Behinds Heard Mouths Flesh Remembered Buried Remember When Behind You Cupboards

Author:Claudia Rankine

“The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.”

Whole Past Spring Remembered Remembrance Present Time Blossoming

Book:Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations

Source: Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations

“To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.”

“I don't want to be remembered for my activities of my past, but for what I am doing today. By that I mean, I don't want to rest on my laurels satisfied by my past deeds. I want to contribute to the advancement of our Folk each and everyday.”

Want Mean Today Past Activity Everyday Folks Deeds Satisfied Remembered Advancement My Past Laurels

Author:Richard Kemp