Ralph Ellison
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O'er that brow a shadow fling?
Go, forget me--and to-morrow
... REV. CHARLES WOLFE GARY COLEMAN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE BECKY G This is the best birthday present that I have got in my life. I'm going to turn 40 and I will never ... DANIELLE GOYETTE ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY QUINCY JONES I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little no... HELMUT NEWTON JOHN STEINBECK I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it,... SIMON ARMITAGE EPICURUS I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life. My proble... MARIEL HEMINGWAY JESSICA KHOURY ROMAN PAYNE JEAN-PAUL SARTRE My departure from Penn State was very painful. I struggled with whether I should just walk away and ... JENNIFER HARRIS THOMAS S. MONSON I've committed myself to be this type of player. Bitch and moan as I may, I've committed myself to i... BRETT HULL I learned to forgive for my position in the kingdom of god's through the book of life after my death... JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. One of the things with our movement that sometimes we forget because we're always talking about equa... KATHLEEN DEBOLD ZYGMUNT BAUMAN I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget th... JOSEPH GIES My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and... MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN LEO TOLSTOY HARRY S TRUMAN HARRY S TRUMAN HARRY S TRUMAN Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the r... GLORIA ANZALDUA To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one t... MOHANDAS GANDHI
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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength whic... 
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not for... 
Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to stri... 
I must be myself, I said over and over. I must forget these people buzzing inside my head, I must fo... 
My heart is feminine, nor can forget--
To all, except one image, madly blind;
So shakes the ne... 
The law of karma says that no matter what context I find myself in, it is neither my parents, nor my... 
Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, wh... 
I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax re... 
But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. 
September 11… I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable… I will never forget feeling the... 
As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' ... 
I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Pe... 
I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide... 
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sa... 
Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my... 
Why is it that the most fundamental life lesson—LIVE!—is the only one I continually forget to pu... 
My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my... 
I suspect that no matter what happens I will allow it to hurt me. Eat away at my insides, as it were... 
I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident... 
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive... 
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts wit... 
I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I’d competed with, and against, men far better, fas... 
Dad?" Jesus asked.
Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'... 
To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting... 
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ... 
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night se... 
When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the p... 
Why can't you fly now, mother?"
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs. 
I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget ... 
It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against pa... 
I always had pressure on myself through my life. I put pressure on myself and not from other people.... 
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner.... 
I love to prune my roses. That's the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I us... 
Poetry is jealous of you tonight, 
The first of April, some do say
Is set apart for All Fools' day;
But why the people call it so... 
The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and... 
I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering... 
I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I poss... 
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide... 
A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you'r... 
I have more than four people on this planet in my life who see me for myself and forget that I've wo... 
But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I ... 
I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me t... 
For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down... 
I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be... 
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it. 
The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not,or, being willing to do so, cannot;or... 
I should have known better than to open myself to such inevitable pain. When did I forget to stay al... 
I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would ... 
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from t... 
May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember ... 
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different,... 
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one ... 
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. 
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it 
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. 
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. 
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and... 
We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: ... 
The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application. 
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I d... 
I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, ... 
K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a moral... 
The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. 
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. 
I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't ... 
I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessa... 