#gotten

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living. ↗

— Stephen Carpenter

#forgotten #memories #memory #remembering #remembrance

Write what should not be forgotten. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#on-writing #writing #writing-advice #write

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#form #history #never #stories #taught

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#forgotten #heart-ache #heartache

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#breeze #dejan-stojanovic #forgotten #literature #literature-quotes

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forgot #forgotten-past #inventions #literature #literature-quotes

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#any #better #climbing #descending #even

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. ↗

— Lloyd Bentsen

#career #come #community #days #eagle

It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#back #case #did #done #e-mail

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#cases #claim #domain #forgotten #goods