Memory Quotes

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To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that… — Simon Schama
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there… — Sigmund Freud
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and,… — Chris Hayes
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things.… — Roger Caillois
George Jones and I happen to share the same birthday. The first and only time I met him (which I believe was at the Opry… — Jennifer Nettles
Early Apple machines -- don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by… — Bob Frankston
Musicâ€¦ is a memory bank for finding oneâ€™s way about the world. — Bruce Chatwin
I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury. — Richard Hammond
You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and… — Eben Moglen
I think that objects have memories. Iâ€™m always thinking that Iâ€™ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some… — Kiki Smith
Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his… — Fernando Sabino
One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The… — Aldo Rossi
Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. — William Kennedy
Iâ€™m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after IÂ retired, that I have neurological damage. I try to manage it.… — Harry Carson
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. — Henry Lee III
I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and… — Ruth Ozeki
I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of… — Monty Roberts
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the… — Dana Spiotta
Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed… — Jan Potocki
Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a manâ€™s memories and you take all of… — Mark Lawrence

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