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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.


Jean Rostand

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The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.
BUD SELIG I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past.
VIOLETTE LEDUC 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... God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first boo...
FRANCIS BACON I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have i...
PABLO SCHREIBER I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Jane Heard.
ONE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be maste...
D. H. LAWRENCE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne Certain br...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
STEVE NASH 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... One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of th...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t...
JACKIE COLLINS And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting u...
ROBERT BROWNING England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.
VICTOR HUGO Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who ...
ANDRZEJ WAJDA How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't thi...
CASSANDRA CLARE The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them
DOUGLAS ADAMS I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER You know what your problem is, Justina? You're in desperate need of a good shag. "Not that I'm offer...
JEANIENE FROST I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
WARREN CUCCURULLO I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
DAN QUAYLE I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.
AIDAN QUINN That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
MURRAY WALKER When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or...
YANN MARTEL I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as...
MARY MACLANE I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonde...
C. JOYBELL C. I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.
CECELIA AHERN Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me...
EVE BUNTING In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has wri...
SAMUEL BUTLER It takes one person to rewrite the history book.
J.R. RIM Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it
SOTONYE ANGA My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago b...
JESSE BALL In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
JACKY ICKX An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and idea...
DEB CALETTI To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU These two chapters (Genesis 1 and 2), instead of containing, as has been believed, one continuous ac...
THOMAS PAINE Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.
RICHARD ROEPER Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
CAROL BELLAMY Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
JEFFREY FRY Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the...
ANONYMOUS The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
FRANCOISE SAGAN Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write ...
MICHAEL LEWIS I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
OSCAR WILDE We are in first place and nobody mentions us as one of the surprises. Every time out we want respect...
DEANDRE RICE One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often...
ELIZABETH ASTON I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and...
CAMERON DIAZ Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't...
LULU I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I wa...
TAYLOR SWIFT In Griffin, I have a customer who always buys two copies of his favorite books — one to read and on...
BILL PHILLIPS It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA I took a year and a half off after the tour from the last record, and there was a point where I didn...
ALANIS MORISSETTE I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anyt...
MICHAEL CONNELLY A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious dra...
MARY AUGUSTA WARD Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any n...
VIRGINIA WOOLF We've never seen a disease spread out as much as this one has in the past 18 months to two years.
JUAN LUBROTH Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with lov...
DRAGOS BRATASANU Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow every...
DAVID EDDINGS If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to wri...
TONI MORRISON One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting bet...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or so...
DANNY ELFMAN I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other ...
HAROLD S. GENEEN If you do not even know one as yourself, then you do not even know them as other.
AARON SANTOS Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to m...
HARPER LEE That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clea...
JUSTIN CRONIN It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.
DEXTER PALMER Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
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JEAN ROSTAND God, that checkroom of our dreams.
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JEAN ROSTAND We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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JEAN ROSTAND I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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JEAN ROSTAND Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
JEAN ROSTAND Theories pass. The frog remains.
JEAN ROSTAND We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
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JEAN ROSTAND Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
JEAN ROSTAND My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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EDMOND ROSTAND A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.
EDMOND ROSTAND Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bell from Cyrano.
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EDMOND ROSTAND ...But...to sing,
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JEAN COCTEAU Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JEAN DUBUFFET Art is science made clear.
JEAN COCTEAU One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
JEAN COCTEAU Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAU Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAU Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
JEAN ANOUILH Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL