“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past”
Source: Watchmen
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Source: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
“His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”
"Kafka and His Precursors" ["Kafka y sus precursores"], as translated in Labyrinths (1964)
Variant translation: The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Other Inquisitions (1952)
Context: In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
“To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past.”
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth
Source: "Some Perplexities about time: with an attempted solution" (1925), p. 149. as cited in: Jonathan Gorman, "The transmission of our understanding of historical time." Historia Social y de la Educación 1.2 (2012): 129-152.
Source: Initiation, Human and Solar (1922), p. 13
1910s, "Natural Law", 32 Harvard Law Review 40, 41 (1918)