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- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
- The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
- 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.