Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“The knowledge feels grotesque in my mind but I grasp it and hold it tight, etching it deep into my memory. Why… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“The Reaping by Stewart Stafford Paint a nostalgic landscape today, A harvest gifted once in this way, Stranger's yields come to pass,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“As I prepare to leave she walks with me, half deaf and blind, under several ladders in her living room that balance… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I go to her Facebook page. It’s silly, I know. Pathetic. And every time I do, I promise myself next time… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
“1] The absence of the personal story: in order for magical rites to pass from generation to generation, the sorcerer (shaman) must… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to… — Russell A. Peck Copy Share Image
“He couldn't remember either the names or the addresses or the telephone numbers of two or three staggeringly attractive women he had… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
“I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road.… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“In order to answer the question “Who am I?”, in order to go back to before the beginning within your own experience,… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
“I felt the truth of these words; and I drew from them the certain inference, that if I were so far to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It is therefore perfectly plausible that memories of childhood sexual abuse could be buried for years and then recalled, and that motivated… — Moheb Costandi Copy Share Image
“When they realize, “Oh, my program's getting gigantic,” what are they going to do? They're not going to know where to start.… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
My first memory of Umbro was when I refused to take off my orange and purple Umbro checkerboard shorts for church at… — Ashlyn Harris Copy Share Image
“I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it long enough to memorize it,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“Each memory rips through me, and although I stow myself against the emotions, I can’t prevent the pain that accompanies each image.… — Christine Fonseca Copy Share Image
Once in a while, our thoughts drift and fade, back into the recessed hiding places where our memories are stored. At times… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How many times have I gone back to the border of memory and peered into the darkness beyond? But it is not… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive… — Gilles Peress Copy Share Image
We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’, Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Whether we hear a series of sounds, read a series of letters, see a series of pictures, smell a series of odors,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She comes to me in snatches - I remember pieces of her laugh, the look she gave when she was upset. Sometimes… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn’t dead yet, I was just on my way… — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like an old… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Even knowing how you caught my father in all this, I simply couldn't hate you. Even though you made me forget everything,… — Ichirō Ōkouchi Copy Share Image
“Remembering is my only job and it's hard work. We are natural-born amnesiacs, hardwired to let go of the past, to release… — Greg Olear Copy Share Image
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“1. If you continue to hold on to your excuses, what would your life be like five years from now? 2. Who… — Kevin Horsley Copy Share Image
![“1] The absence of the personal story: in order for magical rites to pass from generation to generation, the sorcerer (shaman) must forget all he learned before his initiation into magic. According to tradition, a man or women who are tied to his past, will in the end allow himself to be governed…” quote by Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e74/paulo-coelho-10_memory_1-the-absence-of-the-personal-story-in-o_375691.jpg)
