Variant: I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
“I cannot control even the dreams that I have made.”
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
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Nigerian writer 1977Related quotes
“I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself.”
Comment regarding officers who became inebriated, as quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1874) by John William Jones, p. 170
“Having a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), p. 172
1940s
“A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.”
Bair
(15 October 1994)