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Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

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There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

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The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

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When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, wh...more

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Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

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People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are mor...more

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You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.

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We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We will fling it at one another for laughs. Distort it...more

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You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.