"For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten."

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Source : Anita Brookner (2012). “Look at Me”, p.9, Vintage

Anita Brookner

#Forgotten Quotes

“There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I canâ€™t think of any more serious delusion than that...”
“We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.”

Source : Julia Ward Howe (1871). “Proceedings of a peace meeting held at Union league hall, New York, December 23rd, 1870, for the purpose of free consultation on the subject of a woman's peace congress for the world, as proposed by ... Julia Ward Howe”, p.30
“It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.”

Source : "Fictional character: One-Who-Waits". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Big Kiss", 1991), 1990-1995.
“Your life may be messed and your foolishness may have put you into captivity but Jesus can do the whatever it is that is immeasurably more in your life.”
“It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.”
“Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.”
“Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind”
“You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.”

Source : Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.117, Vintage

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