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201 Recollection quotes by 166 unique authors

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done,… — Alexei Sayle
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection.… — Virginia Woolf
How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to… — John Flavel
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view. — Samuel Woodworth
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. — Plato
The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak… — Unknown Author
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or as a recollection… — Tommy Tune
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul… — Frederick Douglass
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I… — Donna Tartt
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. — Edna O'Brien
I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a… — Tory Burch
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the… — Odilon Redon
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It… — Hamlin Garland
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a… — Thomas Merton
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a… — Maureen Dowd
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding… — Chris Van Allsburg
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect,… — Jerry Fodor
Treat [the customer] as guests when they come and when they go, whether or not they buy. Give them all that can be given fairly,… — Harry Gordon Selfridge
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy.… — Siri Hustvedt
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind… — James Laughlin
Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment… — Murray Kempton
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. — Frederik Pohl
Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since — Josephine Hart
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort… — Hermann Ebbinghaus

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