Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
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Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

— Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
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