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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.


Varley O'Connor

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RICHARD CARLSON I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.
MARTY RUBIN It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is...
MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and...
ROSE MACAULAY Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.
GINA GREENLEE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past.
MARTY RUBIN I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
SOLANGE NICOLE Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what t...
ARNOLD H. GLASGOW The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
AGNES REPPLIER Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine....
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
THOMAS S. MONSON Finally, I came to the conclusion that 'The Bible Code' is a fiction. There is no code.
MARK PERAKH The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a myste...
KATE CHOPIN How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. Th...
RAY BRADBURY A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The 20th century has been a century of bloodshed. The present century, because of our past experienc...
DALAI LAMA Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To Geo...
RICHARD DREYFUSS Invent a past for the present.
DANIEL STERN There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
EUGENE O'NEILL I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
JULIETTE BINOCHE My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That...
DONALD TRUMP The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Most of your reactions are echoes from the past.
You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB The museum would have one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
GORDON HUETHER Live in the moment. Don’t carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and lear...
DEBASISH MRIDHA To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ...
JOHN GREEN I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib...
ROALD DAHL Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live "society" is such a usurpation tha...
THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests...
THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put...
THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fut...
TONY CAMPOLO Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
JOAN RIVERS The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDE The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by th...
EMMET FOX The times are not so bad as they seem; they couldn't be
JAY FRANKLIN The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Don’t be ruled by your past. Don’t be crippled by the past. Let the past be the past and focus o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If we live in a glass bubble then it is always easier for the glass to shatter, it is different if t...
GARY F EVANS... Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... The past is behind, learn from it.
The future is ahead, prepare for it.
The present is here,...
THOMAS S. MONSON Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w...
THICH NHAT HANH It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG I am aware that when we see something, we are getting only a measure of information, a sense, an ink...
DON DELILLO You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past.
VIOLETTE LEDUC Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
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PAMELA ANDERSON DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has dee...
AMBROSE BIERCE We have to live in the present. I was very focused and I knew what I had to do to beat him. At the m...
TOMMY ROBREDO The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot inthe present, ... But asalways, you just ne...
BOB HAMMOND I want the world to bleed when it brushes up against me.
JONATHAN DOUGLAS DURAN On the blank page all things are possible.
MARTY RUBIN Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
T.S. ELIOT Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.
STEVE GOODIER Honesty,moral standards ,and principles all partner up with truth be the best you can be. In this wo...
GARY F EVANS... A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
LOUIS L'AMOUR No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves...
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