Memory Quotes

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Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul. — Isabel Allende
Memory has a heavy backspin, yet itâ€™s still impossible to land exactly where we took off. — Colum McCann
Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me.… — Nicholas Sparks
The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were… — Marcel Proust
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. Itâ€™s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except… — John Dufresne
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ...Hope sweetens the memory of experiences… — Samuel Smiles
Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To… — Milan Kundera
Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.. — Bernhard Schlink
We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it. — Betty Smith
Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this â€œsomethingâ€ cannot be seen or heard or numbered… — Robert Fulghum
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. — Jonathan Safran Foer
The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that… — Roberto Bolano
It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own… — Nicholas Sparks
Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret... — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that… — Sue Miller
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are… — Gloria Naylor
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch… — Howard Zinn
Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate… — Herbert Marcuse
True alchemy lies in this formula: â€˜Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulseâ€™. — Arthur Rimbaud
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. — Julio Cortazar

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