"I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go."

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Source : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.338, Delacorte Press

Melanie Benjamin

#Letting Go Quotes #Memories Quotes #Real Quotes

“Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance.”
“Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of mathematical training, Mathematics without Apologies brings us into contemporary mathematics as a living, active inquiry by real people. Anyone wanting a varied, cultured, and penetrating view of today's mathematics could find no better place to engage.”
“My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.”
“I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.”
“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”
“I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.”
“Politics is everywhere. It's in your shirt, it's in your pants. It's everywhere.”
“Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.”

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