“I realized then how much alike we were. Both of us looked backwards to a beloved time that was lost to us,… — Susan Palwick Copy Share Image
“When I change I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth and it goes through me with crazy… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Gray mattresses with red and blue stripes in something that looks like a hallway or an overly long waiting room. In any… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“What is a memory, anyway? Is it an indelible record, unimpeachable, frozen in some synaptic arrangement and stored away for some moment… — Jon Harrison Copy Share Image
“The act of retrieving learning from memory has two profound benefits. One, it tells you what you know and don’t know, and… — Peter C. Brown Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“In the specific case of the use of the term “false memory” to describe errors in details in laboratory tasks (e.g., in… — Jennifer J. Freyd Copy Share Image
“Of all the streets that blur in to the sunset, There must be one (which, I am not sure) That I by… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
“Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is so certain: the sense of familiarity it instills makes us feel like we know ourselves, like we've lived. To get… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“But here’s the thing,” says Paul. “I would bet that if someone did a study and asked, ‘Okay, your kid’s three, rank… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this… — Burkhard Bilger Copy Share Image
“I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“part of my enjoyment of life had always been an unconscious assumption of its continuity. Not necessarily a continuity of reality itself—the… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Time must have covered it over with roses so it would not be remembered. One particular rose, that has an unexpected magic,… — Juan Ramón Jiménez Copy Share Image
My first memory of flipping a house was when I was pregnant with my daughter Taylor. We bought a condo in Santa… — Christina Anstead Copy Share Image
Even grief recedes with time and grace. But our resolve must not pass. Each of us will remember what happened that day,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of… — James Fenton 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
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
“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
Never Shall I Forget Never shall I forget the day you told me you loved me, then you left through the the… — RockyMills Copy Share Image
“Memory, in fact, gives you no choice over which moments you can erase, and it is annoyingly persistent in retaining the most… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“If only you would realize some day, how much have you hurt me, If only your heart ever, craves for me or… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
“You're really going to do it, aren't you? You're really going to go back to war?" Gregor said. He could feel something… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I know we'll be cholis for life, sharing our dreams together. As we walk down the road we'll never think dobara, our… — Sarthak Copy Share Image
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one's life, is rather a void… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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