Forgettable Quotes

• The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry.

  William Bernbach

  Differences, Endure, Artistry

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• Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget

  Suzy Kassem

  Unique, Thinking, Being Different

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• People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Suffering, Religion

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• Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

  Jean Rostand

  Book, Reading, Prerequisites

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

  John Legend

  Artist, Judging, Legends

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• Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Loss, Forever

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• "Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

  Fred Armisen

  Song, Remember, Crime

  "Bill Hader and Fred Armisen on making comedy cinematic with Documentary Now!". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. August 4, 2016.

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• Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

  Mason Cooley

  Kind, Carnal Knowledge

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• The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

  Alan Coren

  Today, Useless, Cigarette

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.183, Canongate Books

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• If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Ideas, Who Cares

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• The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Example, Details, Boring

  Patricia Highsmith (2001). “People Who Knock on the Door”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

  Donald Miller

  Together, Stories, Taste

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• I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.

  Gregory Maguire

  Tree, Leafs

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.173, Harper Collins

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• Of course.” She fluffed her hair. “I don’t want to brag, but I’m very high maintenance.” “Uh, I think low maintenance is what’s desirable.” “Low maintenance is what’s forgettable. You might want to write that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It’s golden.” With barely a breath, she added, “Now let’s find out if we’re compatible, shall we?

  Gena Showalter

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.38, Harlequin

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• There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Believe, Loss

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• Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.

  Anne Perry

  Gowns, Care, Occasions

  Anne Perry (2010). “Belgrave Square: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• I'm a very wide reader. I read serious books and I read airplane, forgettable books. I never have fewer than four or five books beside my bed at night. I particularly enjoy reading about people who have gone through a personal growth.

  Mary Robinson

  Book, Reading, Airplane

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.

  Dan Simmons

  Time, Memories, Weekend

  "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.

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• On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Irritating, Articles

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• Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

  Mark Gatiss

  Sometimes, Great Music

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• The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We tend not to think about this arithmetic when we look back on our lives. We remember the handful of Big Days and throw away the rest.
  We organize our long, shapeless lives into tidy little stories...But our lives are mostly made up of junk, of ordinary, forgettable days, and 'The End' is never the end.

  William Landay

  Thinking, Long, Looks

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.381, Delacorte Press

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• As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Kids, Long, Fiction

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Nobody gets to name you. You are not forgettable. You are not replaceable. You are not your pain. You are sacred and special and alive.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Pain, Names, Special

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• Being a Silent Brother is life, Clary Fray. But if you mean I remember my life before the Brotherhood, I do. Clary took a deep breath. “Were you ever in love? Before the Brotherhood? Was there ever anyone you would have died for?” There was a long silence. Then: Two people, said Brother Zachariah. There are memories that time does not erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend Magnus Bane, if you do not believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Memories, Believe

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2269, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw a lot of lousy movies and watched a ton of crappy television and read a bunch of utterly forgettable books and comics and listened to hours of junk music as a kid. And I'm still drawing profitably in my own art on some of the tawdry treasure I stored up in those years.

  Michael Chabon

  Art, Book, Kids

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