“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”
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American author and screenwriter 1940–2006Related quotes
(1834-1) (Vol.40) The Future, compare Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) I, 31
The Monthly Magazine
Variant: A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
Source: Salem Falls
Source: A Living Nightmare
Original: (it) Fa che ogni tuo istante sia sempre migliore di quello passato, si vive di presente per il futuro, si vive d'amore, musica, felicità e soprattutto coraggio nei momenti difficili.
Source: prevale.net
“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”
A Few Bits of Roman Mosaic.
Literary Essays, vol. I (1864-1890)
“When you are in the future, the past looks different.”
April 2004, to the Commons committee on public administration, Hoggart, Simon. 'Sir Humphrey reveals his Dusty Springfield side' http://politics.guardian.co.uk/redbox/comment/0,9408,1206669,00.html, The Guardian (30 April 2004).
“Pleasure is always in the past or in the future, never in the present.”
Il piacere è sempre o passato o futuro, non mai presente.
29th September 1823, Festival of Saint Michael the Archangel.
Zibaldone (1898)
“He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.”
Source: This Lullaby