Memory Quotes

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Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort. — Paullina Simons
To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time.… — David Mazzucchelli
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing. — Charlotte Bronte
Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever… — Adrienne Rich
Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it… — Joshua Foer
I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I… — James Frey
On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. Very tall… — J.R.R. Tolkien
... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars'… — Bret Easton Ellis
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words. — Jorge Luis Borges
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We… — Ernest Hemingway
The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality — Chuck Klosterman
Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery. — Ken Kesey
I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound. — Ken Kesey
It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldnâ€™t obsessively reread what youâ€™d written after youâ€™d sent it.… — Ann Brashares
This guy in high school tried to run me over with his dadâ€™s SUV. Bad shoved the vehicle through a store window.â€ The memory brought… — Darynda Jones
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no… — Milan Kundera
I didnâ€™t know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning every happy memory I had of growing… — Maggie Stiefvater
I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed… — Isadora Duncan
I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone. — Jim Butcher

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