Books Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

“[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.”

— Temple Grandin

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

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

— Stacy Aumonier

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

— Clifton Fadiman

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have…

— Milan Kundera

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

— John Irving

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

— Mark Teixeira

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan