“Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
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Source: The Human Comedy (1943)
Context: Death is not an easy thing for anyone to understand, least of all a child, but every life shall one day end. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. His body can be taken, but not him. You shall know your father better as you grow and know yourself better. He is not dead, because you are alive. Time and accident, illness and weariness took his body, but already you have given it back to him, younger and more eager than ever. I don't expect you to understand anything I'm telling you. But I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240
Variant: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
“Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.”
"Let It Go" (1949), line 1; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 99.
The Complete Poems
“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”