"We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia."

-- Angela Davis

#Forgetfulness Quotes #Amnesia Quotes

“I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.”
“I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.”
“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
“I am sympathetic to developing countries' concerns: because of our emissions it's their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it's their fields that turn to desert.”
“I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark”

Source : Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett
“So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.”
“The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.”
“Quite honestly, even as a woman dealer, I really wasn't interested in masculinity or femininity as such. What was important to me was the value of the work itself. If a woman had come along, somebody like Lee Bontecou or Louise Nevelson, and said, "I'm working on the land," I would have gone to see it.”

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