"Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future"

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Source : Maxim Gorky (2016). “Creatures That Once Were Men”, p.39, The Floating Press

Maxim Gorky

#Past Quotes #Remembrance Quotes #Energy Quotes

“From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.”
“I love everything Buffy. I don’t care who’s doing it.”

Source : "'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' remake: Kristy Swanson supports it... and wants to act in it" by Sandra Gonzalez, www.ew.com. November 23, 2010.
“It's not my duty as an architect to look at it”
“You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.”
“There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it.”

Source : Russell Chatham (1988). “Dark Waters: Essays, Short Stories and Articles”
“Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects”
“No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.”

Source : "Téa Obreht: 'I don't feel I've earned the Orange prize'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.
“Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.”

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