“This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.”
Source: I Hunt Killers
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Barry Lyga 22
American writer 1971Related quotes

"Personal Conduct" http://books.google.com/books?id=IYOcAQAAQBAJ&q=%22The+stupid+neither+forgive+nor+forget+the+na%C3%AFve+forgive+and+forget+the+wise+forgive+but+do+not+forget%22&pg=PA177#v=onepage, p. 51. http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15151528W/The_Second_Sin
The Second Sin (1973)

“Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.”

On the killing of al-Queda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden by US military forces, as quoted in "Dalai Lama suggests Osama bin Laden's death was justified" by Mitchell Landsberg, in The Los Angeles Times (4 May 2011) http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0504-dalai-lama-20110504,0,7229481.story.

“I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.”

“Man forgets. God forgives. Man forgets God's Truth. God forgives man's ignorance.”
Songs of the Soul (1971)