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- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
- What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
- There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
- Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
- The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.