Amnesia Quotes - Page 4

• My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Ingredients, Said

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.239, Macmillan

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• World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're given kind of a clean access to it in one way. It's also a war that represents a failure for the United States. Many people came back feeling like they never wanted to talk about it again. And so we developed a national amnesia.

  Ken Burns

  War, Interesting, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For me, the Internet is the opposite of memory; the Internet is amnesia, it's about today and tomorrow is another day. Printed issues are about recording time, leaving a trace and making it relevant.

  Olivier Zahm

  Memories, Leaving, Today

  Source: wwd.com

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• Memory in America suffers amnesia.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Memories, America, Suffering

  Meridel Le Sueur (1955). “Crusaders: the radical legacy of Marian and Arthur Le Sueur”, Minnesota Historical Society Pr

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• I had brief glimpses of emotional catharsis while writing. I remember reading something Philip Roth wrote about how he writes every single day, but it's almost as if he has amnesia every morning - he has almost zero confidence that anything will come but he just sits down and plugs away. And at the end of the day it feels like a miracle: "How did I do that?" I had a similar experience where it was just about putting in the hours and being present.

  Annie E. Clark

  Morning, Reading, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.

  Max Mayfield

  Men, Hurricanes, Lessons

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• Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Book, Loss, Light

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• People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappointment them, or, if they do, the owners manages to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me.

  Ann Patchett

  Dog, Disappointment, Acceptance

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• Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Ambitious, Way

  Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway

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• I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Latin, Past, Land

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• I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

  Eduardo Galeano

  Past, Scrapbooking, Remember

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• Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.

  Chris Hedges

  Historical, Age, Atrocities

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• My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Brother, Book, School

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