Gayle FormanWhoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
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The past is never dead. It's not even past. Past is only a word, like ghosts, that people use to talk about the things that are already gone. The future is what's alive; the future is what we're making right now - not yet, but soon; things that haven't happened yet but will at some point, maybe tomorrow or next year or sometime in the next decade or century.
Source: Where She Went
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