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- Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
- Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
- Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957)
- September tries its best to have us forget summer.
- Bern Williams
- I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
- Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
- If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
- Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
- When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
- Anzia Yezierska
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