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In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

Peter Sotos

Work

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Susan Sontag

America

Past

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

Georg Solti

Past

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

Robert Smith

Manager

Past

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!