#forget

He can hum the music in his old man's quivering voice, but he prefers it in his head, where it lives on in violins and reedy winds. If he imagines it in rehearsal he can remember every step of his three-minute solo as if he had danced it only yesterday, but he knows, too, that one time, onstage in Berlin, he had not danced it as he had learned it; this much he knows but cannot recreate, could no recreate it even a moment after he had finished dancing it. While dancing he had felt blind to the stage and audience, deaf to the music. He had let his body do what it needed to do, free to expand and contract in space, to soar and spin. So, accordingly, when he tries to remember the way he danced it on stage, he cannot hear the music or feel his feet or get a sense of the audience. He is embryonic, momentarily cut off from the world around him. The three most important minutes of his life, the ones that determined his fate and future, are the three to which he cannot gain access, ever. ↗

— Evan Fallenberg

#dance #dancing #forgetting #memories #memory

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left. ↗

— Isobelle Carmody

#life #life

I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget. ↗

— Guy Lafleur

#away #did #driving #everything #farm

Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL. ↗

— Guy Lafleur

#did #fans #forget #know #nhl

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#big #efforts #forget #god #i

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them. ↗

— Denis Leary

#biggest #camera #come #forget #i

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#decreased #effects #enhanced #forget #i

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#actions speak #contemplation #evidence #forget #louder

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#badly #been #by the time #consumer #corn

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#bogged #down #forget #get #pet