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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1174
AUTHOR: Eric Hoffer (1902–83)
QUOTATION: We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
ATTRIBUTION: ERIC HOFFER, “Thoughts of Eric Hoffer,” Including: ‘Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely,’” The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, pp. 55, 57.
SUBJECTS: Memory