Accounts Quote by Douglas Adams

How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

— Douglas Adams

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

— Jonah Lehrer

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post…

— Paul Fussell

“You're smiling. But you must know yourself, since you are a literary person, that the work of fiction is always a form of recovery…

— Raymond Federman

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

— Jet Black

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

— Anonymous

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your…

— Ryohgo Narita

A mans present can sometimes be judged by his past.

— Vikrant Parsai

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was…

— Sam Phillips

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

You can be aware of your past without being it.

— Geneen Roth

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville