“We were together. I forget the rest.”

— Walt Whitman

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American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”

Joan Didion book Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“We will never forget. If it takes us five or ten or twenty years, we will never rest until we get our revenge.”

Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician (CDU)

As quoted by General Sir Charles Fergusson in a memorandum (10 July 1945), recalling conversations with Adenauer in 1918-1919, at the end of World War I. As published in Adenauer : The Father of the New Germany (2000) by Charles Williams, p. 293 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=7mhpKYpugJsC&pg=PA293

“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“And so, by night, while we were all at rest,
I think the coming sped the parting guest.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat

The Parting and the Coming Guest (1873).

“People often forget that in 1940 there was no guarantee that we were going to win.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

This quote is actually from Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames. See "The Beacon of the Western Way of Life" http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=135
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