A Quote by David Lodge

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards. — © David Lodge
Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.
Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.
When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet.
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.
Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.
Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.
My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.
I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.
Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just can’t give in to weak thoughts. You have to beat down those devils that get inside your head and try to make you panic. You struggle along, putting one foot a little bit ahead of the other, hoping that when you go backwards it won’t be too far backwards, so that when you start going forwards again you won’t have too much to catch up
Always forwards, never backwards.
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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