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  1. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
    -- Christopher Hitchens

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

  2. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
    -- Christopher Hitchens

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

  3. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
    -- Christopher Hitchens

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

  4. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
    -- Christopher Hitchens

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

  5. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
    -- Christopher Hitchens

    #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

  6. A quotation from Nietzsche

    Blessed are the forgetful: for they “get the better” even of their blunders.
     
    [Selig sind die Vergesslichen: denn sie werden auch mit ihren Dummheiten “fertig”.]

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and poet
    Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Beyond Good and Evil], Aphorism 217 (1886) [tr. Zimmern (1906)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/nietzsche-friedrich/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #nietzsche #blessing #blunder #error #forgetful #forgetfulness #forgetting #fretting #getover #mistake #notworryabout #setaside #shame #stupidity #unremembered #worry

  7. A quotation from Bill Watterson

    CALVIN’S DAD: Why is it I can recall a cigarette ad jingle from 25 years ago, but I can’t remember what I just got up to do?

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1994-01-31)

    More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/80309…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #advertisement #commercial #forgetfulness #forgetting #jingle #memory #memorylapse #remembering

  8. A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

    Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
    Article (1858-10), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #experience #forgetfulness #memory #recollection #selectivememory

  9. 🎨🤔📚 "I can't remember anything, and somehow I'm still living in a perpetual state of bliss! Who needs memories when you can blog about not having them?" Let's just hope you don't forget your own name, Marco! 😂
    aethermug.com/posts/i-do-not-r #memoryloss #blogging #humor #blissfulstate #forgetfulness #HackerNews #ngated

  10. A quotation from J. M. Barrie

    WENDY: Oh! Peter, when Captain Hook carried us away —
    PETER: Who’s Captain Hook? Is it a story? Tell it me.
    WENDY: (aghast) Do you mean to say you’ve even forgotten Captain Hook, and how you killed him and saved all our lives?
    PETER: (fidgeting) I forget them after I kill them.

    J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
    When Wendy Grew Up — An Afterthought (1908, publ. 1957)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/76677/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #peterpan #jmbarrie #disregard #forgetfulness #memory #remembrance #selectivememory