A Quote by Deborah Harkness

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

Deborah Harkness

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Deborah Harkness
American - Novelist
Born: 1965

They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with.

Nancy Reagan

I think the isolation in China also has to do with people's memories being wiped out, collective memories as well as individual memories, by the fact that the recent history has been constantly rewritten and revised.

Yiyun Li

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

Mike Colter

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

Alan Cohen

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

George W. Bush

You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

Joan Didion

Although it was short, I have fond memories of my appearance in KBS's 'Fight My Way.'

Kwak Dong-yeon

There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive.

Elif Batuman

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

Anthony Standen

Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

Marcel Proust

History can just be so unkind as time passes.

Joshua Henry

Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.

George Washington Carver

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

Nas

I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.

Claire Denis

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.

Jamaica Kincaid

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