So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Effects of the past The past The human condition

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

The Great Gatsby

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Closing lines Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 9.

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Tender is the Night
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1934 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 14.

Another quote from the 1920s

A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture... A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Zedong

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Revolution

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Mao Zedong
Genre
Political literature
Statement Type
Definition
Language
Chinese
Time
1927 1920s 20th century
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Zedong, Mao. "湖南农民运动考察报告 [Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan]." Zhongyang Fukan, 28 Mar. 1927.

Another quote about The past

For the one thing even God cannot do is change the past.

Agathon

Quoted in The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle

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God's power God Changing the past The past
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Agathon

Author

Aristotle
Source
The Nicomachean Ethics
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 1
Original Citation

Agathon. Quoted in Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics], written by Aristotle. c. 350 BC, bk. 6.

Current Citation

Agathon. Quoted in Nicomachean Ethics, written by Aristotle, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing Company, 2019, bk. 6, ch. 2.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

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Adversity
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Author

Louisa May Alcott
Source
Little Women
Medium
Novel
Genre
Coming of age story
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1868 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868, ch. 44.

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Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Puffin Books, 2014, ch. 44.