“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.”

—  Cormac McCarthy , book The Road

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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