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Memory Quotes by Mason Cooley

11 Memory quotes by Mason Cooley

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Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

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Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

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Memory is imagination pinned down.

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Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.

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No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.

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No one could be the way I remember my father

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Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

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Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

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Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.

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Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

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Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.

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Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

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The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

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Money comes to life as it is spent.

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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

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Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

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The body has a mind of its own.

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In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. Mason Cooley

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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

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