Memory Quote by Flannery O'Connor Download Open image ““Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked.”” — Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memory Psychology Witty
“I've forgotten almost everything about my mom so I try to make myself think about her more. Otherwise, I'm afraid one day I'll wake up and I won't remember her at all...No one ever asks. Like they think they're doing me a favor. That if I don't bring it up, I won't have to think about it. I never stop… — Katja Millay Copy Share
“I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like feeling things.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“Just remember,” she says, “no one can take away from you what you’ve put in your mind.” — Edith Eger Copy Share Image
“Tell me things I won't mind forgetting," she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it.” — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I give it (grandfather's watch) to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“There was something I ought to remember: and yet I did not remember.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Another part of getting older: you forgot what you wanted to remember, and remembered what you wanted to forget.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like to feel things. I'm thinking I could spend the rest of my… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me. — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
