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Memories Quotes by Julian Barnes
- He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.
- Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found…
- Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you…
- Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.
- History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
- We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was…
- History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the…
- I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to…
- What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd…
- But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the…
- When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life…
- What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?
More Memories Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu