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Memory Quotes by Tim O'Brien
- The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in…
- Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got…
- What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...
- And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads…
- The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.
- But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the…
More Memory Quotes
- You've left a memory no one can steal, but you also left a heartache that no one can heal. — Nishan Panwar
- I've met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: I'm… — Paulo Coelho
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Happiness is good health and a bad memory. — Ingrid Bergman
- If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and… — John of the Cross
- If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. — Jesse Ventura
- Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn