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Marguerite Duras Writer, Filmmaker
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"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."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"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."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"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."

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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician
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"I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history."

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Herbert Schiller Communication Theorist
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"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."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"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."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships."

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