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The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.

Toni Morrison
Past, Data, Interesting
Source: theharvardadvocate.com

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

Toni Morrison
Thinking, Past, Way
"Toni Morrison's Fiction: Revised and Expanded Edition". Book by Jan Furman, 2014.

It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.

Toni Morrison
Past, Years, Laughing
Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

Toni Morrison
Past, Next Day, Brain
Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, p.73, Random House

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