"The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us."

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Source : Grace King (1973). “Grace King of New Orleans: A Selection of Her Writings”, p.35, LSU Press

Grace King

#Real Quotes #Past Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.”
“I love singing just for my own benefit.”
“The most important fact of this century is not that Earth is threatened in many ways, It is that for the first time in all of its history a decisive means of protecting the home planet exists. It is by using space.”
“This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.”
“Till I see money spent on the betterment of man instead of on his idleness and destruction, I shall not believe in any perfect form of government ...”
“Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'”
“I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.”
“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”

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