Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.
Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.53, Sarah Orne Jewett

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.