All CLAUDIA RANKINE Quotes about “Past”

“You canâ€™t put the past behind you. Itâ€™s buried in you; itâ€™s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.”
“The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?”
“I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's a present and a future - and what was in the past no longer exists.”
“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

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