"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget."

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Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jun 24, 2011

Joan Didion

#Memories Quotes #Never Forget Quotes #Forget Quotes

“What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.”
“Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator.”
“Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.”

Source : "The White House: Just Call Me the Anniversary President". www.cnn.com.
“I lick my fingers because I don't like when my hands get slick. Licking my fingers helps me keep a good grip on the ball.”
“The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings.”
“This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American thinkers had come to believe that all parts of their balanced governments represented in one way or another the sovereign people. They had left the Aristotelian idea of mixed estates - monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy - way behind. [John] Adams had not, and his stubbornness on this point caused him no end of trouble.”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org
“I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.”

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