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“Among the women, a spontaneous cheer went up, which Liz was surprised to find herself joining, and this was when (she was on her fifth drink) she realized both that she was completely drunk not just tipsy, not merely buzzed and also that she was much happier than shed been an hour or two before. She felt a retroactive remorse for all the Eligible contestants shed deemed trashy and idiotic from the comfort of her living room; apparently, like teriyaki pizza and bee venom facials, getting wasted on a reality-TV show was not to be knocked until tried.”
— Curtis Sittenfeld —

“A sort of insatiability seems to infect our feelings when we look back on women, particularly on those who are highly interesting and yet whose effort at self-definition through works is fitful, casual, that of an amateur. We are inclined to think they could have done more, that we can make retroactive demands upon them for a greater degree of independence and authenticity.”

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.”

— Sheldon Vanauken

“Among the women, a spontaneous cheer went up, which Liz was surprised to find herself joining, and this was when (she was on her fifth drink) she realized both that she was completely drunk
not just tipsy, not merely buzzed
and also that she was much happier than she'd been an hour or two before. She felt a retroactive remorse for all the Eligible contestants she'd deemed trashy and idiotic from the comfort of her living room; apparently, like teriyaki pizza and bee venom facials, getting wasted on a reality-TV show was not to be knocked until tried.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Congress passed the deeply flawed Patriot Act and authorized the invasion of Iraq. It even gave its retroactive approval to warrantless wiretapping.”

— Andrew Rosenthal

“Historia abscondita. - Every great human being exerts a retroactive force: for his sake all of history is placed in the balance again, and a thousand secrets of the past crawl out of their hiding places - into his sunshine. There is no way of telling what may yet become part of history. Perhaps the past remains essentially undiscovered! So many retroactive forces are still needed!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.”

— Harold Coffin

“It is futile to talk too much about the past ... like trying to make birth control retroactive.”

— Charles Erwin Wilson

“There is no straight line to Goodness, to Love, or to God. And thank God, Grace is always retroactive.”

— Richard Rohr

“Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities.”

— Paul Di Filippo

“Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.”

— Redd Foxx

“In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”

— Eileen Simpson

“[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.”

— Florence Prag Kahn

“Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.”

— Mary Jane Ward

“I taught what was clear in Acts 11:26: SAVED = CHRISTIAN = DISCIPLE, simply meaning that you cannot be saved and you cannot be a true Christian without being a disciple also. I taught that, to be baptized, you must first make the decision to be a disciple, and then be baptized ... I taught that their baptism was invalid because a retroactive understanding of repentance and baptism was not consistent with Scripture.”

— Kip McKean

“The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.”

— Dale Dauten

“Retroactive management emphasizes the bottom line.”

— W. Edwards Deming

“I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish.”

— Robert Downey, Jr.

“What you are talking about is retroactive classification. And the reason that happens is when somebody asks or when you are asked to make information public, I asked all my emails to be made public. Then all the rest of the government gets to weigh in.”

— Hillary Clinton

“I am 100 percent confident. This is a security review that was requested. It is being carried out. It will be resolved. But I have to add if there's going to be a security review about me, there's going to have to be security reviews about a lot of other people, including Republican office holders, because we've got this absurd situation of retroactive classifications.”

— Hillary Clinton

“The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.”

— Daniel Dennett

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