#backward

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

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You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession. ↗

— John Huston

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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. ↗

— Nancy Friday

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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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If my love could be represented by a blur, it would be the beating of a hummingbird’s wings. Did you know that my love is the only love that can fly backwards?
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— Jarod Kintz

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Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons. ↗

— Criss Jami

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If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. ↗

— Jim Bakker

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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

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