Happens Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos Download Open image “What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them” — Augusto Roa Bastos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happens Language Memory Wretched
Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“...here we have the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems… — Noam Shpancer Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I forget about the consequences, for a minute there I lose my senses and in the heat of the moment my mouth's starts going… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket… — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
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I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
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