“Time could heal, but it wouldn't make wrongs go away. Time came back like a reminder. Time folded with memory. In a… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“Separated by so much more than distance and lifestyle, even their memories of a shared childhood have faded from their minds.” — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“Middle-aged memory [is] an instrument of torture: you reach for the fruit of memory and it vanishes, to appear when you no… — Castle Freeman Jr Copy Share Image
“To be “happy” you must constantly bear in mind the miseries you have escaped. This would be a way for memory to… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“This sun and blue sky were only a snare. This is the hundredth time I've let myself be caught. My memories are… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“In every evocation of a childhood scene, my stepfather's face is the least detailed, the most out of focus; when I think… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There is a powerful difference between picturing an image that does not relate to you, and recalling something specific that you are… — Adam Houge Copy Share Image
The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling.… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“During any prolonged activity one tends to forget original intentions. But I believe that, when making a start on A Month in… — J.L. Carr Copy Share Image
“Pretty much all memory is fiction and heavily edited. [...] A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Out of every darkness, out of every bleak cloud, there will be a ray of sunshine, that is if your willing to… — Amanda Day Copy Share Image
“Many memories are simply painful, and there's no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea… — Jan Potocki Copy Share Image
“Once, she asked, 'Can you remind me of this tomorrow?' He smiled and replied, 'I'd rather be your everlasting reminder than just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I read that goldfish have a memory of five seconds. I envy them. My memory of Alex, my love for him, will… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've seen all of these decisions that have been made by all these great leaders who have been part of Google, and… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
I have no living memory of Diana, but I had this weird thing where my mum used to look incredibly like her,… — Emma Corrin Copy Share Image
“The mind is not the one that harasses you, it is the attachment-abhorrence that harasses you. It is because of the attachment-abhorrence… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The first is working memory, or what we usually call “short-term memory”—the category of memory that includes anything we are actively thinking… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“memories are nothing, soft as gauze against the ruthless razor-fineness of that edge, beautiful and lethal, one tiny slip and it’ll slice… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
If you want to remember yourself, the best thing is not to think about yourself. As long as you think about yourself,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
As far as my memory being reliable, at the risk of sounding like some sort of gorgeous two-headed monster with the voices… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
“Bad memories of the past cannot be destroyed by tearing or burning photographs; 'understanding' what happened in the past is the cleverest… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Obviously, I have a lot of memories here... but at the same time I'm going to put all my energies into moving… — Peter Bondra Copy Share Image
The idea that when you correct a fact, you erase that fact from people's memories is the reverse of the truth. When… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Most things, I find, are temporary and pass into distant memory with the next great event. But this commentary drew blood to… — Nev March Copy Share Image
'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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