35 Quotes About Retrospect
- Author Sophocles
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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- Author Vladimir Nabokov
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The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of the retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait.
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- Author Virginia Euwer Wolff
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I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.
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- Author Donna Tartt
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Is it easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness.
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- Author Georges Simenon
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Human tragedies are always simple when we reconsider them in retrospect.
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- Author Pete Herr
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There are so many things I wish I had learned when I was 16 or 17 years old. They would have been game changers in my life.
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- Author Wade The Wordsmith
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Mirror mirror on the wall,you don't know me well at all.Took my number, said you'd call. I tied that line up gag and all. What you see is what you get. Don't reach out to try to pet my wild kind of intellect.It can't be tamed by hand or net.Retrospect. Are we there yet?
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- Author William Bolcom
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I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.
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- Author Alan Greenspan
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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