A Quote by Rebecca Stead

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

Rebecca Stead

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Rebecca Stead
American - Writer
Born: January 16, 1968

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

Idries Shah

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Paula Danziger

Don't forget! That is to say: remember - because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting.

Timothy Levitch

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

Jim Harrison

Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from.

Sonny Rollins

Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through.

Joel Osteen

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Tim O'Brien

You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.

Gabrielle Zevin

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

Ann Brashares

Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

Desmond Tutu

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Tim Foley

Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget.

Gary Inrig

And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you’re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.

Sue Miller

For me it's easy to continue remembering someone that is impossible to forget.

Zelda Williams

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

Jose Bergamin

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

Tyler Knott Gregson

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