Memory Quotes

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Thatâ€™s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,… — Walter Mosley
Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in… — Garth Stein
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… — Julian Barnes
most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless,… — Arthur Miller
[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous. — Stephen King
Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember. — Joan Didion
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memoryâ€”and this is largely determined by the… — Daniel Kahneman
But Iâ€™ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly donâ€™t get soggy at the… — Julian Barnes
When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride.… — Arundhati Roy
There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection… — Dan Chaon
Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots,… — Suzanne Collins
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want. — Chris Bohjalian
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory!… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk of brain cells… — Douglas Coupland
Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents' smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding, mouths open and… — Lauren Oliver
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood… — Herbert Marcuse
Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory — Rajneesh
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise… — Chinua Achebe
This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would… — Rene Descartes

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