Memory Quotes

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My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children. — Billy Corgan
It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic… — Billy Joel
Live Fast, Love Hard, DieYoung (And Leave A Beautiful Memory). — Faron Young
Last memory of my mother is her being dragged away — Jean McConville
I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never… — Nan Goldin
My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make… — Nan Goldin
I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we… — Sarah Dunant
There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust… — Floyd Red Crow Westerman
If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you… — Padgett Powell
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core… — Eleanor Lerman
Nothing stands still, except in our memory. — Philippa Pearce
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery,… — David Berlinski
Memory is the residue of thought — Daniel T. Willingham
We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell their… — Daniel J. Siegel
Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory. — Damon Galgut
It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning,… — John Lanchester
Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals. — Anna Funder
In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help… — James Sallis
Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy. Even if you… — Jesse Lee Kercheval
They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in… — Lou Reed

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