“The past screams louder than the future. The future is mute, but it’s not deaf.”

“As a thinker, and most writers would consider themselves thinkers, your competition is not only the whole world, but it’s also the people of the past, and the people of the future. And the people of the future are the dangerous ones, because you’ll never know how good they are.
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“Everybody has a past—even if it lies in the future.”

“If you can predict the future, you can change the past.”

“I am a forward thinker with nostalgia. I dream of the past, and daydream of the future.”

“A brick can be used to represent a ruin, or the beginning of new construction. With a brick, the past is the future.
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“I fear one day I’ll get a knock at my front door, and I’ll answer it to find myself standing there. Then I’ll hear myself say, “Hi, I’m from the future, and I’m here to destroy you.” But that is irrational. The future me isn’t out to destroy me, because the me of my past already did a thorough job demolishing my present and possible future.”