"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember"

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Source : "Thom Yorke composes music for Harold Pinter play on Broadway" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2015.

Harold Pinter

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Remember Quotes

“I think, by and large, the way big social change happens is every individual person taking on whatever little piece they can take on.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.”
“The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.”

Source : "Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.
“The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.”
“If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.”
“My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.”
“If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.”
“Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes.”

Source : Michele Weiner Davis (2008). “The Sex-Starved Wife: What to Do When He's Lost Desire”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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