Aggravated Quote by Nguyen Viet Thang

Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

“Remembering is my only job and it's hard work. We are natural-born amnesiacs, hardwired to let go of the past, to release ourselves from…

— Greg Olear

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where…

— Natasha Trethewey

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

— Meridel Le Sueur

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

— Paula Gunn Allen

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

— Erich Maria Remarque

One of the things people often say about America is that it's a such a young country, relatively, and its problem - Europeans say…

— Miroslav Penkov

“People who have lost their memories have lost much of what makes them who they are. Memory is what enables us to learn by…

— Patricia Wolfe

It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the…

— John O'Donohue

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets…

— Studs Terkel