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
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled,… — Paula Hawkins 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
I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences… — Sylvia Townsend Warner 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
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is possible that, in fact, Trump's call for "America First" (despite evoking unpleasant recollections that such a phrase was the invention… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a… — Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska 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
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
The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People tend to be clueless about prices. Contrary to economic theory, we don't really decide between A and B by consulting our… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory… — Frank Hardy Copy Share Image
I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
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