The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.

Lillian Hellman
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  1. When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. - Siri Hustvedt

  3. In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution. - Zadie Smith

  4. The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind. - Clare Francis

  5. Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come... - A.E. Housman

More Quotes By Lillian Hellman
  1. It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

  2. I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

  3. Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

  4. I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

  5. Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch...

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