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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
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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 do on soaps.
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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 imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning someone in the audience.
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