Memory Quotes

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Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely… — Arundhati Roy
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by.… — Maeve Brennan
Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory. — Isaac Marion
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — Joseph Conrad
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with… — Vladimir Nabokov
We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at… — Pittacus Lore
Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation,… — Christopher Nolan
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully… — John Calvin
Yesterday was a memory. Today was a hope. — Karen Marie Moning
She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory. — Margaret Atwood
But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more. — Khalil Gibran
Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on."… — Ilona Andrews
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success,… — Diane Ackerman
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine. — Yann Martel
He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the… — Colum McCann
This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this… — Sara Zarr
She said, "You may be able to implant an image, even a taste or a smell, but I don't think you can implant the feelings… — Brian Falkner
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered… — William James
He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.. — Jane Austen

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