"But the past is long, and the future…" — Karen Thompson Walker
"But the past is long, and the future is short."
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38 Quotes by Karen Thompson Walker
Karen Thompson Walker has 38 quotes on this site.
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Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
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Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when…
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I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the…
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Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
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I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back.…
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I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are…
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Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as…
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How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived…
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Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's…
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Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
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Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this…
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The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the…
— Neil Armstrong
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
— Dean Acheson
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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