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# Weekend Words: Forget
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-forget/
- Published: 2014-05-18T13:30:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:33:28.000Z
- Description: The European Union wants Google to learn how to forget.
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![forget](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/forget.jpg)

Jan van Kessel (the Elder), “Study of Insects, Butterflies and a Snail with a Sprig of Forget-Me-Nots” (1659), oil on copper, 12 x 18 cm (Private collection) (image via Web Gallery of Art)

The European Union wants Google to learn how to forget.

> “Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.”  
>  
> **—Henry Ward Beecher**

> “Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.”  
>  
> **—Thomas De Quincey**

> “In violence, we forget who we are.”  
>  
> **—Mary McCarthy, “Characters in Fiction”**

> “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”  
>  
> **—*Hebrews* 13:2 (KJV)**

> “I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll make an exception.”  
>  
> **—Groucho Marx**

> “I drink to forget I drink.”  
>  
> **—Joe E. Lewis**

> “You’ll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don’t have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.”  
>  
> **—Sam Rayburn**

> “Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.”  
>  
> **—Sir Walter Scott**

> “There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”  
>  
> **—Henri Matisse**

> “Live your life and forget your age.”  
>  
> **—Norman Vincent Peale**

> “Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.”  
>  
> **—Georges Rouault**

> “We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.”  
>  
> **—Jorge Luis Borges**