“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me”

—  John Fowles , book The Collector

Variant: Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.
Source: The Collector

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British writer 1926–2005

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