“Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: The Book of Tomorrow
“Yesterday's kook book becomes tomorrow's standard text.”
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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991Related quotes
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