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  1. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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  2. Ricardo Piglia _ The Absent City

    There is never a first time in memory, it is only in life that the future is uncertain, in memory the pain always returns in precisely the same manner, rushing to the present, you have to avoid certain places as you go over the past with the eye of the camera, whoever looks at himself on such s a screen loses all hope.
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  3. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    The Old Days, the Lost Days -- in the half-closed eyes of memory {and in fact} they never marched across a calendar; they huddled round a burning log, leaned on a certain table, or listened to those certain songs.
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  4. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance."
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  5. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed {like the Greenland Norse} and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.
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  6. John Grisham _ The Partner

    Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the mind was awake but drifting. Most were terrifying, the nightmares of the shadows growing bolder and larger. Others were pleasant wishes of a rosy future, free of the past. These were rare, Patrick had learned. Life on the run was life in the past. There was no closure
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  7. Rick Warren _ The Purpose Driven Life: What

    Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.
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  8. Rick Warren _ The Purpose Driven Life: What

    We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
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  9. Dan Brown _ Deception Point

    Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.
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  10. Don DeLillo _ Underworld

    This happened back east of course. I've heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the country. But I never think of the term as a marker of geography. It's a reference to time, a statement about time, about all the densities of being and experience, it's time disguised, it's light-up time, shifting smoky time tricked out as some locus of stable arrangement. When people use that term they're talking about the way things used to be before they moved out here, the way the world used to be, not just New Jersey or South Philly, or before their parents moved, or grandparents, and about the way things still exist in some private relativity theory, some smoky shifting mind dimension, or before the other men and women came this way, the ones in Conestoga wagons, a term we learned in grade school, a back-east term, stemming from the place where the wagons were made. {pg.333}
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  11. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    Past is past... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.
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  12. Paul Auster _ The Invention of Solitude

    Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one's private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to say: history - which one both participates in and is a witness to, is a part of and apart from. Everything, therefore, is present in his mind at once, as if each element were reflecting the light of all the others, and at the same time emitting its own unique and unquenchable radiance.
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