"I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot."
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"Some things are better left buried and forgotten."
"Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten."
"We forgive but not forgotten"
"What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?"
"I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man."
"I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them."
"Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence."
"I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere.' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes -- Olenna Tyrell, the HBIC"
"Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified."
"People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia."
"I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world."
"We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end."
"I have forgotten my umbrella."
"I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history."
"I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction."
"The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was."
"The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships."
"Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood."
"I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead."