Memory Quotes

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(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. — Julio Cortazar
Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our… — Julio Cortazar
Now that I think about it, it seems to me thatâ€™s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you… — Julio Cortazar
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind… — George Santayana
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. — Kay Redfield Jamison
believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup.… — Douglas Coupland
I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which… — Ted Dekker
He didnâ€™t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself. — Julian Barnes
Remember the botched brothel-visit in Lâ€™Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found… — Julian Barnes
If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory — Judy Sheindlin
A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory… — Guy de Maupassant
Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are… — Ellen Hopkins
Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals… — Karen White
Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together. — Rebecca Solnit
But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no… — Jane Yolen
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at… — Steve Toltz
You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that… — J M Coetzee
Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone. — William Shakespeare
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general… — Charlotte Bronte
a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness.… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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