“A bird flashed across the empty sky. A cart immobile on the horizon, like a midday star. How could a plain like… — César Aira Copy Share Image
When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“You see, that's who you are, Joe. All these things. That's the person I know, and through him is the way you'll… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“This is what writing does to you: it makes you put everything under a microscope of metaphors and similes, surrounded by memories… — Ibraheem Hamdi Copy Share Image
What to do with a leading business that's challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“A memory is least accurate when most reflected upon, and most accurate when least pondered. Together, those two facts make eyewitness testimony… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
My earliest memory is being in a snow hole, aged two-and-a-half, with my dad somewhere up a mountain in a blizzard. I… — Tommy Caldwell Copy Share Image
You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be… — Heston Blumenthal Copy Share Image
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us,” he says after the phone stops ringing. “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure,” she said. “There’s no one answer to that. You have to find your own way. Sometimes I try to… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“It takes a long time to open someone like a book, you need to press your spines together. Then the patterns of… — Kelsey Ipsen Copy Share Image
“For years I'd been trying to forget..., locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey... had shattered that,… — Benedict Jacka Copy Share Image
“What is wrong with life is human memory, she thought. What is the point of life and history--all that human beings sacrifice… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The places we have known do not belong only to the world of space on which we map them for our own… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Sat apart from the decay, an area of woodland, which shimmered in green. It offered a kind of radiance Namtilla had never… — D.J. Cowdall Copy Share Image
“Now, let us go back to the starting point, and become informed as to how the original seed of an idea, plan,… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life—for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly. "You too," he said. "I also remember that you were beautiful." "Memory does play… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Evolutionary biologists tell us we have a “negativity bias” that makes our brains remember negative events more strongly than positive ones. So… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don't remember things. I black out and I can't remember where I've been or what I've done. Sometimes I wonder if… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. "The Past Tense," I suppose you'd call it. Memory's so treacherous.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I want to get rid of every memory we had, I want to forget every moment, every conversation. I want to forget… — Delaney Ridnour Copy Share Image
Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Incongruous information is discarded, and supporting information is eagerly retained. Our memory actually ends up skewed: we are better able to process… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
To the memory of my loved ones that lost the battle of life to death, I want you to know that I… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
I Literally Just Told You' is a game show about short-term memory and how bad it is. My starting point was that… — Richard Bacon Copy Share Image
“Surfacing When you go to the water seeking answers You won't find me there. Just Remember: I am in the sun and… — Lucy Lennox Copy Share Image
“At a minimum, Larsen would like to see something done to interrupt the forgetting: give a quiz at the end of a… — Peter C. Brown Copy Share Image
“These memories descend out of nowhere, giving me pieces of who I was, but their significance is lost. I sigh and resume… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
“We commented to her about the practicalness of everything she recalled, how her memories seemed to throw a spotlight on problems and… — Corrie ten Boom Copy Share Image
“You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered,… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return… — Teresa de la Parra Copy Share Image
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“repatterns our brains and changes our biology; the new experience will reorganize the old programming, and in so doing, it will remove… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
