Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable -…

— Jean Dubuffet

Try it on." "It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled. "It has a…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one. I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I'd…

— Helen Lowrie Marshall

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

— Daniel Tammet

“Imagination, like memory, can transform lies to truth.”

— Christina Garcia

“There’s nothing like the memory of a lost friend to remind a man of his own mortality.”

— John J. Winters

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

— Haruki Murakami

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places.…

— Aldo Rossi

“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory…

— Haruki Murakami

“But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“[HAMILTON] I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

— Andre Gide

I always find that nostalgia is sort of like memory without the pain. And that's why it feels so good to kind of bask…

— Carrie Brownstein

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory…

— Haruki Murakami