“I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 79
“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!”
Amanda, Scene Five
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
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