If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
The future is much like the present, only longer.
The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
One faces the future with one's past.
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
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