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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way histor... by A. A. Gill

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

A. A. Gill
way fiction past

There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go

A. A. Milne
animal zoos past

That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.

A. A. Milne
bye two past

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

A. B. Simpson
secret people past

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

A. B. Yehoshua
judging truth past

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
power wisdom past

The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

A. D. Coleman
eye might past

You think you might know something about yourself or why you act or react in certain ways and then you come to new information and suddenly you see your past and your present in a completely different light.

A Fine Frenzy
different past thinking

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

A. J. Liebling
new-orleans real past

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

A. J. P. Taylor
names people past
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way... by A. J. P. Taylor

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

A. J. P. Taylor
rounds way past

Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.

A. J. P. Taylor
regret running past

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

A. J. P. Taylor
studying-history mistake past

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

A. N. Wilson
political cheer past

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.

A. O. Scott
visions-of-the-future eye past

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

A. R. Ammons
purpose men past

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

A. R. Bernard
wise success past
What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare ou... by A. Theodore Tuttle

What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

A. Theodore Tuttle
preparation done past
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time... by A. Whitney Brown

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

A. Whitney Brown
writing history past

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

Aaron Eckhart
men sex past
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