“We've already been killed, all of us. It happened so long ago, we've forgotten it.”

October 2016 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ben-affleck-slams-bill-maher-over-his-islamophobia-remark-fans-come-out-support-batman-v-1468551, In an argument with TV show host Bill Maher

Source: The Museum of Innocence

Source: Never Let Me Go

Variant: Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it
Source: One Day

Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Source: Never Let Me Go

Address at Iona College (1984)
Context: Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago.
We've never had it so good, most of us.
Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now — aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.
All around us we have seen success in the world's terms become ultimate and desperate failure. <!-- p. 934

Source: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

Fruit Tree
Song lyrics, Five Leaves Left (1969)