Evelyn Waugh Quotes About Past
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My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past
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These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.
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