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• You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Character, Details

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• Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dog, Borders, Genetics

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Aug 18, 2011

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• Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

  Bette Greene

  Giving, Want, Remember

  Bette Greene (1993). “Morning Is a Long Time Coming”, Laurel Leaf

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• When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so intent on riding the wave perfectly that you and the wave become one. Pain and worry disappear, replaced by euphoria, akin to flow. Similarly, when giving empathy, you want to strive for this kind of total presence for the person you are listening to.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Giving, Worry

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• There's a difference between dreaming and doing. The dreamers just sit around and moon about how wonderful it would be if only things were different. The years roll on and by and by they grow old and they forget everything, even about their dreams.

  May Robson

  Dream, Moon, Years

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• The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, People

  "Meditation and Its Methods".

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• You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

  Steve Wozniak

  Objectivity, Marketing, Needs

  Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith (2006). “IWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon - Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor”

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• This one commercial said, "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn't know what they were!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mind

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• Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Art, Beginners, Source

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

  Matt Berninger

  Forget, Like You, Like Yourself

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• A lot of people, when they say forgive and forget, they think you completely wash your brain out and forget everything. That is not the concept. What I think is you forgive and you forget so you can transform your experiences, not necessarily forget them but transform them, so that they dont haunt you or handicap you or kill you.

  Ishmael Beah

  Thinking, People, Forgive And Forget

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• However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

  Pliny the Younger

  Done, May, Favour

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• Like the oxytocin you get as a mom makes you forget everything constantly. And I'm a totally different person after having a kid.

  Larkin Grimm

  Mom, Kids, Oxytocin

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

  Helen Mirren

  Character, Thinking, Stories

  "Q&A: Helen Mirren and Nicholas Hytner". Interview with David Cote, www.timeout.com. June 23, 2009.

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• It's important to run not on the fast track, but on your track. Pretend that you have only six months to live, and make three lists: the things you have to do, want to do, and neither have to do nor want to do. Then, for the rest of your life, forget everything on the third list.

  Mike Davies

  Running, Track, Important

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• Every movie you're going to forget that it's 3D whether it's widescreen or whatever it is, you're going to forget everything if the movie is working. If the movie doesn't work or if the movie generically doesn't work then immediately you start to pick apart whatever has contributed to that.

  Steven Spielberg

  Forget, Picks, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.

  Dana Gould

  Alzheimer's, Grudge, Knows

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• A year after I started college, I had no clue what I wanted to do. My mother said, forget everything else-if it were your birthday today, what would you do? I thought, I would play with makeup at the department store. So she said, do that!

  Bobbi Brown

  Mother, Makeup, College

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• How important things had become, now that they were gone!  I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Important, Gone, Panic

  Elizabeth Berg (1999). “What We Keep: A Novel”

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• Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it like,“This is the first time I've ever played a guitar. What am I going to do?”. That's one way of getting straight through the conscious mind into the subconscious layer where the true creative spirit lies.

  Edge

  Song, Lying, Guitar

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• If you were my queen, truly my queen, our court would be stronger still. If you were mine , without mortal distractions, we'd be safer. We'd be stronger if we were truly together. Summer is a time to rejoice in pleasures and heat. When I'm around you, I want to forget everything else. I love Donia. I always will, but when I'm near you--" He stopped himself.

  Melissa Marr

  Summer, Queens, Together

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• I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself—when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Volunteer, Wipe

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• I'll explain it to you. To me it's more than a game." She touches her chest and says, "When you love something as much as I love football, you just feel it inside. Did you ever love doing something so bad that it consumed you?" "A long time ago." "That's what football is to me. It's my passion, my life… my escape. When I play, I forget everything that sucks in my life. And when we win…" She looks down like she's embarrassed to admit what she's about to reveal. "I know this is going to sound stupid, but when we win I think miracles can happen.

  Simone Elkeles

  Football, Stupid, Passion

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• People seem weak, but they’re strong. They seem strong, but they’re weak. No matter how much you cry, you still have to sleep. And you even get hungry. You suddenly realize you’re doing the same things you did yesterday. You say hi to your friends and smile just like you did yesterday. Life goes on as if nothing ever happened… I want to go somewhere… Anywhere… Somewhere where I can forget everything. …where I’ll forget everything …and be reborn. Mars Volume 18

  Fuyumi Soryo

  Strong, Sleep, Yesterday

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• When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Inspirational, Dance, Feels

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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