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I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened. -- Derek Magyar
Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of our past, as a country, as a Church, or as an individual is never easy. Our struggle to heal the wounds of decades of violence, injury and painful memory in Northern Ireland are more than ample evidence of this. -- Sean Brady
Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did. -- Steve Carell
The civilian wants to respect what the veteran has gone through. The veteran wants to protect memories that are painful and sacred to him from outside judgment. -- Phil Klay
I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful. -- Pauley Perrette
I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness. -- Ma Jian
Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.' -- Martha Beck
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. -- Sophia Loren
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I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory. -- Stephenie Meyer
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well. -- Plutarch
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. -- David Brooks
Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope. -- Bryant McGill
I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way. -- Reese Witherspoon

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