“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me”
Variant: Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.
Source: The Collector
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John Fowles120
British writer 1926–2005Related quotes
Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer
Source: Sammy Keyes And the Dead Giveaway
Carole King (1942) Nasa
Some Kind of Wonderful (1961), Co-written with Gerry Goffin, first recorded by The Drifters
Song lyrics, Singles
“And something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Ballad of a Thin Man
“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”
Aldous Huxley book Crome Yellow
Source: Crome Yellow
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
On the killing of al-Queda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden by US military forces, as quoted in "Dalai Lama suggests Osama bin Laden's death was justified" by Mitchell Landsberg, in The Los Angeles Times (4 May 2011) http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0504-dalai-lama-20110504,0,7229481.story.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Attributed to Russell in Slaby's Sixty Ways to Make Stress Work for You (1987)
Attributed from posthumous publications