The past, he said. The past is too much with me. And the past has made me useless. I have too much to remember-so much to remember that it becomes more important than the things there are to do. I'm living in the past and that is no way to live. (Clifford D. Simak)

The past, he said. The past is too much with me. And the past has made me useless. I have too much to remember-so much to remember that it becomes more important than the things there are to do. I'm living in the past and that is no way to live.

Clifford D. Simak

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