Amnesia Quote by John Guare Download Open image “We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?” — John Guare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amnesia History World
Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Mankind in Amnesia has to do not only with the past, like my other books -- primarily it has to do with the future,… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
Memories are meant to be remembered, because even the bad memories are usually part of something we once thought was good. — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much… — Peter Geye Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds… — Rebecca Walker Copy Share Image
It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
“Historians concluded that in the twentieth century about sixty genocides had occurred in the world, but not all of them entered historical memory. Historians… — Patrik Ouředník Copy Share Image
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure. — John Guare Copy Share Image
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human… — John Guare Copy Share Image
The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you… — John Guare Copy Share Image
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”. — John Guare Copy Share Image
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first… — John Guare Copy Share Image
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner. — John Guare Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. — John Guare Copy Share Image
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B. — John Guare Copy Share Image
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems to be… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.” — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“He found her utterly fascinating, a nameless, homeless, naked vampire, sleeping away the day in his bed, wanted by state and federal police.” — Travis Luedke Copy Share Image
I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or… — Matt Kuchar Copy Share Image
“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say, ‘I’m going… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image