Memory Quotes

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Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning. — Patrick Rothfuss
I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present,… — John Gardner
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment. — Napoleon Bonaparte
In Irenaâ€™s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it… — Milan Kundera
Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all… — Joko Beck
does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the… — Neal Shusterman
I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had words to speak… — Madeline Miller
I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because… — Mohsin Hamid
The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human… — Stephen King
LUCAS: I've done a couple from memory but they aren't the same. Can't quite get the shape of your jaw. The line of your neck.… — Tammara Webber
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited… — BrenÃ© Brown
But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full… — Paul Monette
[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are. — Elliot Perlman
He must have driven this way countless times, and yet he had no memory of the scenery. He must have been so caught up in… — Rachel Joyce
[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone… — James Robertson
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me â€” nothing to make my friends proud of my memory â€” but I… — John Keats
Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening. — Jim C. Hines
They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses. — Cinda Williams Chima
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a… — Graham Swift
No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates… — F. Sionil JosÃ©

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