Real Past Quotes
- A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets. — Colin Thubron
- Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on… — Edith Wharton
- I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is… — Sylvia Plath