Amnesia Quotes
On forgetting, national memory, and history's short fuse
Several quotes here treat amnesia as a national failing rather than a medical one, warning against a forgetting that erases who and what a country is, close in spirit to Forget quotes.
It's ironic that early on in the war with Afghanistan, the Americans and the British were saying, 'We recognise there must be a Palestinian state,' then they rapidly forgot about it. I think history will show that that kind of...
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Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we...
Effort Quotes
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean...
That will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning someone in the audience.
It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of...
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Others use amnesia more personally, describing comas and soap-opera memory loss, or an entire island's history culminating in amnesia and fog, a theme tied to Effort and remembrance.
