Memory Quotes

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My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain… — James Boswell
I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next… — Amy Winehouse
Anything processed by memory is fiction. — David Shields
Marriage is memory, marriage is time. — Joan Didion
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to… — Jacques Derrida
Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has… — Pericles
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
History is the memory of States. — Henry A. Kissinger
Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget. — Bill T. Jones
Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic. — Tennessee Williams
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. — Paul Klee
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination. — George Eliot
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired… — Emanuel Lasker
My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering. — Joy Harjo
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory. — Studs Terkel
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of… — Jonathan Lethem
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I… — Jonathan Lethem
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. — Emile M. Cioran
The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears. — Charles Wright

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