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> [“It is often advantageous to forget. Forget your wincing humiliations, forget life's blows, and get on. For blocks in every direction, down every street in the city, people not yet old enough to have lines on their foreheads were laughing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/it-is-often-advantageous-to-forget-forget-your-wincing-humiliations/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

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## More by Anna Godbersen

> [The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/the-value-of-secrets-is-ever-fluctuating-although-ladies-who-have/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/it-is-a-fact-of-big-cities-that-one-girl-s-darkest-how-is-always/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [“What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/what-a-privilege-it-is-to-live-now-at-just-this-moment-and-to-be-able/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [“It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/it-was-like-the-color-of-his-eyes-she-supposed-not-quite-one-shade-or/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/good-night-diana-summoned-all-the-dignity-that-she-could-manage-in/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/it-is-a-truth-universally-acknowledge-that-there-will-always-be-a/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/in-new-york-there-is-always-something-to-look-at-but-it-is-all/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/henry-was-thinking-of-the-younger-holland-sister-of-the-way-she-could/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/the-first-stab-of-love-is-like-a-sunset-a-blaze-of-color-oranges/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/living-too-much-in-one-s-head-can-be-dangerous/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [“A veces los finales son en realidad comienzos.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/a-veces-los-finales-son-en-realidad-comienzos/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/girls-their-mother-interjected-you-must-both-stop-being-strange-it-is/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [“It is often advantageous to forget. Forget your wincing humiliations, forget life's blows, and get on. For blocks in every direction, down every street…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/it-is-often-advantageous-to-forget-forget-your-wincing-humiliations/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/they-were-a-society-whose-chief-vocations-were-to-entertain-and-be/)

[Anna Godbersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-godbersen/)

> [But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-godbersen/but-in-that-moment-she-realized-how-false-most-smiles-were-and-what-a/)

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