Memory Quotes

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One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. — Colum McCann
I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal… — Elizabeth Smart
Now, now," said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. "I already gave him a drubbing for courting Emmie."Reynaud raised his… — Elizabeth Hoyt
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is… — Virgilia Peterson
Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times,… — Larry Dossey
The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his… — Paul Halmos
Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more… — Herbert Spencer
Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the… — Stephen Vincent Benet
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject… — William James
Talent like Michael's is rare. I feel so privileged to have known him and so look forward to honouring his memory in what is going… — Gladys Knight
When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me,… — Helen Keller
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,… — Milan Kundera
Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die… — Margaret Drabble
To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called… — Edward Hallowell
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether… — Theodore White
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know… — Isabel Allende
Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both. — Deepak Chopra
If youâ€™re a black Christian, you have a real short memory. — Chris Rock
A good liar must have a good memory. — Christopher Hitchens

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