Memory Quotes

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager… — Frederic William Maitland
The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental… — Rupert Sheldrake
My greatest inspiration is memory. — Paul Theroux
At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory. — W G Sebald
Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? Thatâ€˜s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear… — Rachel Maddow
From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and… — Julia Margaret Cameron
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events;… — Milan Kundera
Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. It's not God… — Gunter Grass
Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon. — Denis Waitley
Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing, — Eric Kandel
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. — Augusto Roa Bastos
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them — Augusto Roa Bastos
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit oneâ€™s endâ€¦.Then, again, during… — J. L. Carr
What's left is palimpsestâ€”one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it. — Natasha Trethewey
As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in Americaâ€¦. — Utah Phillips
In Memory of BPP Comrades Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, both assassinated by the US Government via the state and local government of Chicago, Illinois,… — Emory Douglas
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. — Leopold von Ranke
History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living. — John Smith
The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no… — Jonathan Carroll
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand, — Herta Muller

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