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The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.