“You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?'
'Yeah. You remember the things you want to forget and forget the things you want to remember.”
Source: The Road
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Cormac McCarthy 270
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933Related quotes

“You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.”
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Count Zero (1986)

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
Variant: If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.