Memory Quotes

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You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't. — Sandra Dallas
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well. — Javier MarÃas
I would be mute, beautiful, changless as the earth for you. I would be your memory, without age, always innocent, always waiting in the King's… — Patricia A. McKillip
Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price… — Robert Jordan
Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing… — Sebastian Faulks
A story begins with this nebulous feeling thatâ€™s hard to get a hold of and youâ€™re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe.… — Michael Chabon
It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the… — Bernhard Schlink
Simon!â€ The voice was Claryâ€™s. He would know it anywhere. He wondered if his mind was conjuring it up now, a sense memory of what… — Cassandra Clare
Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail,… — Neil Gaiman
...this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and… — Julio Cortazar
Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended -… — John Green
She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed… — Stephen King
The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need… — Henry Hazlitt
Hugo attacked me." Clary tried not to wince as the astringent liquid stung her wounds. Hugo?" Luke blinked. Hodge's bird. I think it was his… — Cassandra Clare
Vision sometimes comes in a memory. — Marilynne Robinson
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of… — Amy Bloom
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most… — Lewis Hyde

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