"The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future."

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Source : Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws”, p.108, Fawcett

Peter Benchley

#Past Quotes #Looks Quotes

“It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and theyll keep coming back.”
“It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.”
“All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.”
“And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest. (View from Windermere in the Lake District)”
“Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.”
“Biography should be written by an acute enemy.”
“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

Source : Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media
“I was a functional addict.”

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