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  1. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of string and a paperclip lying in a dish.
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  2. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.
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  3. Jack London _ The Star Rover

    To be able to forget means sanity.
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  4. Gillian Flynn _ Gone Girl

    Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.
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  5. James W. Loewen _ Lies My Teacher Told Me:

    Another result of the War of 1812 was the loss of part of our history. As historian Bruce Johansen put it, "A century of learning {from Native Americans} was coming to a close. A century and more of forgetting--of calling history into service to rationalize conquest--was beginning." After 1815 American Indians could no longer play what sociologists call the role of conflict partner--an important other who must be taken into account--so Americans forgot that Natives had ever been significant in our history. Even terminology changed: until 1815 the word had generally been used to refer to Native Americans; after 1815 it meant European Americans.
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  6. James Patterson _ Sundays at Tiffany's

    This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.
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  7. Peter S. Beagle _ The Last Unicorn

    I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, or if they had changed so that they hated all unicorns now and tried to kill them when they saw them. But not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else-what do they look like to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?
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  8. Douglas Coupland _ Microserfs

    Because in the end we forget everything, anyway. We're human; we're amnesia machines.
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  9. Milan Kundera _ The Joke

    Their message will never be decoded… because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when the accumulation of messages old and new is such that their voices cancel one another out. Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of painting and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense.
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  10. Milan Kundera _ The Joke

    Their message will never be decoded, not only because there is no key to it, but also because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when the accumulation of messages old and new is such that their voices cancel one another out. Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of painting and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense.
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  11. Milan Kundera _ Ignorance

    In Irena's head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.
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  12. Milan Kundera _ The Book of Laughter and

    It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything - love, convictions, faith, history - no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides on the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even in direct contact with, that border, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter.
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