340 Quotes About Forgetting

  • Author Teju Cole
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    There are towns whose names evoke a real horror in you because you have learned to link those names with atrocities, but, for the generation that follows yours, those names will mean nothing; forgetting doesn't take long.

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  • Author John Burley
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    It is not a forgotten place, but it is a place for forgetting - the crimes committed by its patients settling into the dust like the gradual deterioration of the buildings themselves.

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  • Author Colson Whitehead
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    That was the man's real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered--he kept forgetting what he had.

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