Forget Quote by Lauren Beukes Download Open image “Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting” — Lauren Beukes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forget Memories Memory
Forgetting stuff is just human, especially when other things are on our minds. — Claudia Winkleman 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
Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them. — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
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
“The memory has a marvellous capacity to remember the forgotten, its existence and its stalking, and thus allow us to stay alert when we… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Being her friend was like going to a tropical island for a little fun in the sun, only to be kidnapped by terrorists.” — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“Fear festers in the imagination. It’s not fear’s fault. That’s just the way it’s made. Nightmares breed. Allies become enemies. Subversives are everywhere. Paranoia… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share
Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“You can bury your radical magazines and tear up your sexually perverse sketches and burn your sheets. But how do you erase who you… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“That's what I thought" he said. "It doesn't change anything, Zinzi". He moved to kiss me, but as I tilted my head up, he pressed the mango against my lips instead. "Idiot" I said, wiping my mouth, mainly to hide my smile. "Adulterer", he grinned. "Unwitting accomplice!" "You weren't so unwitting last night. And besides polygamie is legal in Congo."… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share
“You have to do the cutting yourself, to let out the pain inside. Getting someone else to slice you up is cheating.” — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His… — Roger Ebert Copy Share
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
“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our lives -- in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles -- we can forget our souls. We do not tend to them, as if… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.' — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
