Bad memories Quote by Gerald Brenan Download Open image “A bad memory is the mother of invention.” — Gerald Brenan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad memories Innovation Invention Memories Memory Mother Mother Of Invention Parenting
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“I have tried to use memory and invention together, like two hands engaged in the same muddy work of digging up the past.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
“Memory…is not the mechanical recording device people often think it is. Memory is anything but constant, anything but indubitable. It shifts and fades, blooms… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.” — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Take responsibily for your past, the bad memories of poor decisions you took were your choices once, and you liked them for the moment… — Aruho Marvin Copy Share Image
“You must learn to release and let go of the hurt of the past it serves you no purpose you are only hurting yourself… — Marian Cooney Copy Share Image
Start everyday with a new hope leave bad memories behind and have faith for a better tomorrow ..... — Alexa Dolmo Copy Share Image
“I felt my heart skip a beat, just one, but it was enough that I took notice. It was nice to know that the… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“When pain inspires you, your thoughts scream its lungs out.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“In a war between races, nobody wins,” Vincent sighed, “and Agatha lost dearly . As we all did, on all sides. You were guilty… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“Life is this one gigantic ball full of heartaches, breakups, both good and bad memories, make-up and falling love. it's messy but it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always remember all the beautiful things happened, that gives big smile in our face,. Especially don't forget the bad memories,,that give us strenght and… — Ailenecaballero Copy Share Image
Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories. — Jerry Stiller Copy Share Image
“Time made apologies and absolution unnecessary. Time didn't really heal, it just made bad memories distant so that the brain couldn't recapture the lost… — Amulya Malladi Copy Share Image
