J.B. Priestley (1894–1984) English writer
"The Disillusioned", in The Balconinny, and Other Essays ([1929] 1969) p. 30.
“Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.”
— Alice Sebold, book The Lovely Bones
Source: The Lovely Bones
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