Able Quote by Sarah Addison Allen

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

— William Shakespeare

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

— Zhuangzi

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to -…

— Michael Chabon

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

— Horace

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs…

— Julio Cortazar

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

— Sara Zarr

Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.

— Beryl Markham

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

— Evelyn Waugh

“Describe what is meant by “forgetting.”

— Richard Benson

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

— Augusto Roa Bastos