eventful quotes

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Inside the Whale,'My Country Right or Left'.

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