Quote by Henry Rollins
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins

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People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. – Henry Rollins

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Words of snow, which fell last year. – German saying

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. – Ralph Blum

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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Wendell Berry

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