"Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior."

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Source : Tom Rachman (2014). “The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel”, p.237, Dial Press

Tom Rachman

#Remember Quotes #Forget Quotes #Overrated Quotes

“I fear no man. Sometimes I think I do not even fear God.”
“There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.”
“Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.”
“...what will be the outcome of this kind of thing? Holton predicts that "at best, the result could be Muslim enclaves in Western communities in which sharia supercedes native law." Or "at worst, sharia could start to creep into our lives and laws, changing our way of life little by little over time." That would be entirely in line with the stealth jihad goal of Islamizing American society.”
“A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category â€” gentlemen masquerading as beasts?”
“Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.”
“There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.”

Source : "The Bookseller of Kabul author cleared of invading Afghan family's privacy" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.
“What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.”

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