Hilton Als Quotes

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

What does it remember like?

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

Writers are rememberers.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

And never forget, there is memory.

You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

I'm surprised by how much I remember.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

The strands are all there; to the memory nothing is ever lost.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.

It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.