“Truth of it is,’ said Commander Haydock, steering rather erratically round a one-way island and narrowly missing collision with a large van, ‘when the beggars are right, one remembers it, and when they’re wrong you forget it.”
N or M? (1941)
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Agatha Christie320
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Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Night Road
Ann Brashares book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
'I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then.'
Colonel John Boyle and David in Ch. 7
The Garden of Eden (1986)
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
Ibid.
Essays and reviews
“You have to remember how the islands move. If you forget that, you're lost.”
Mau Piailug (1932–2010) Micronesian navigator from the Carolinian island of Satawal and a teacher of traditional, non-instrument wa…
An Ocean in Mind (1987)
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Sylva Sylvarum Century X (1627)
Source: The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
Context: It is true that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
“When no idea seems right, the right one must seem wrong.”
Marvin Minsky (1927–2016) American cognitive scientist
Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)