KURT VONNEGUT, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE:
When a person dies, he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past…All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV:
Time is but memory in the making.
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RAY CUMMINGS:
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
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GEORGE ORWELL, 1984
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
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PETE TOWNSHEND of The Who on his late bandmate JOHN ENTWISTLE:
If it’s this good, if the life is this good and this much fun, then it’s gonna entangle you. That’s what the mystics say, isn’t it, that when we die we’re still entangled in life. So I hope he managed to get himself untangled….and go on to do whatever he’s gonna do next. I’m sure he’ll be as much fun as a female belly dancer in Taiwan….(or) whatever he’s gonna do next, as he was as my very, very good friend in this band.