“Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.”

“I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.”

“I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.”

“The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.”

“There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.”

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

“We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories […] but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.”

“Therapists probably can't ethically do it, and they may have anti-deception provisions in their standards of conduct. But bad governments, bad people, they don't have requirements of conduct. When we recently published a study about planting false memories among U. S. soldiers, I was worried we were putting out a recipe for how you can do horrible things to somebody and then wipe their memory away.”

“I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.”