“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
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Source: Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925)
“Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.”
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Anne Rice
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Variant: It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Source: The Great Gatsby