One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“At one point Hoffa told Bobby Kennedy regarding the tapes, “To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory,… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really. — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“No treasure house of recollection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation… — S.J. Watson Copy Share Image
The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Although my parents were kind and loving, I had none of the joys, or the companionship, which small children usually have. From… — John George Haigh Copy Share Image
The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“...And as for your hair!it's worse than ever.Can't you drench it in water to take those untidy twists and twirls out of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view. — Samuel Woodworth Copy Share Image
“Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. ("The past was… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come. — David Markson Copy Share Image
Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance. — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
I absolutely do not think that I have even a vague recollection of what normal life is like. — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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