Forgotten Quote by Sharon Cameron

“It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.”

Sharon Cameron

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I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy.

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“He tossed the potato up and down, up and down, a thin smile creeping out from the corners of his mouth.”

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I would not want to forget the first time I read The Lord of the Rings. I would never want to forget that! That was so magical to me, and that was a real eye-opening experience. I was probably 11 when I read that and already a reader, but I think that book really showed me how you can be…

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“Warm sun and robin's-egg skies were inappropriate conditions for sending one's uncle to a lunatic asylum.”

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“We are made of our memories.”

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“Handsome young men should not act as if they know it.”

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I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.

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I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.

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“I knew full well that Lane considered himself more family than servant to my uncle, and that my uncle felt the same; the only…

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I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from,…

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I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

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I do think a lot about the past.

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I was just going to say something, but I forgot when I started looking at you.

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Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas.

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People paid money for tickets to see us and be entertained by us, and we've never forgotten that. Anything after that was a bonus.

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“Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten.”

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We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

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