#forgotten

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding. ↗

— Albion W. Small

#become #facts #finding #forgotten #historians

For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world. ↗

— Henry Miller

#forgotten #henry-miller #relfection #sentient-being #sentient-beings

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#explanations #forgotten-past #future-generations #dreams

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. ↗

— Erica Jong

#i #like #most #ones #rave

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#being #being forgotten #cease #dim #discoveries

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#background #become #criticism #forgotten #gestures

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#appeal #ends #exploring #extreme #forgotten

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. ↗

— George Santayana

#consists #effort #fanaticism #forgotten #you

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place. ↗

— John Saxon

#although #been #certainly #changes #come

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#forgotten #glamorous #i #means #should