"Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost."
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"Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten."
"By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked."
"What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all."
"Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten."
"He who lives happiest has forgotten most"
"This crime against humanity must never be forgotten."
"Those who die without being forgotten get longevity."
"Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?"
"Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die."
"The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below."
"In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is."
"Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!"
"Why does the thin grey strand Floating up from the forgotten Cigarette between my fingers, Why does it trouble me?"
"Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony."
"Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!"
"She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago."
"I'm not in journalism for the money. I'm in it to tell great stories, to talk about moments of history that are forgotten, and also to get into the nitty gritty of drug policy that you don't really see written about anywhere else."
"She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all."
"If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering."