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I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable
– Peter Ackroyd

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  2. So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight. – Peter Ackroyd
  3. the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page – Peter Ackroyd
  4. the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page – Peter Ackroyd
  5. One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one’s own bad lines. – Peter Ackroyd
  6. Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants. – Peter Ackroyd
  7. To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone. – Peter Ackroyd
  8. A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil – Peter Ackroyd
  9. What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement? – Peter Ackroyd
  10. I am the scourge of God – Peter Ackroyd
  11. The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths. – Peter Ackroyd
  12. I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon – Peter Ackroyd
  13. It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around… – Frederick Buechner
  14. Life is made of the past, present and the future. We’re shaped by our past, and we’re shaping our future with our present. – Ibrahim Emile
  15. To use the past to justify the present is bad enough-”but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past. – Amitav Ghosh
  16. Hope is Future and Future is present ,Present is past and Past is Mystery – Hamza Khan Takkar
  17. We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. – Glen Duncan
  18. We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. – Glen Duncan
  19. Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
  20. Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
  21. If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why. – Joyce Rachelle
  22. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. – Fernando Pessoa
  23. In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time. – Sarah Vowell
  24. Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller. – Arthur Schopenhauer
  25. That would be the greatest misfortune of all! — To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! — Do not wish me such an evil. – Jane Austen
  26. The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear. – Charles Baudelaire
  27. Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  28. Animals are such agreeable friends-•they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot
  29. You must be present in the present to make it a present. – RVM
  30. You must be present in the present to make it a present. -RVM – RVM
  31. Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  32. Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
  33. Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
  34. Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future. – Amit Ray
  35. The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great! – Meena Sarine
  36. The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it. – Cara Black
  37. The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory. – Roshani Chokshi
  38. The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. – Peter Benchley
  39. The present is precious gift.The past cannot be replayed.The future is no guarantee.Live in the present. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  40. For basic survival, as for evolution, we have to accept the past as the creator of the present, influence the future, and act in the present. – Daniel Egger

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