Memory Quote by Leslie Marmon Silko Download Open image ““He could get no rest as long as the memories were tangled with the present”” — Leslie Marmon Silko ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memory Sleep
“But what I’ve always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he’d done just a second before.… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory.” — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
“He felt, sometimes, like the keeper of memories-the one who had to facilitate that invisible transition between the way it used to be and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“...but though he could not recapture it, he could remember it, as one remembers a vivid experience at some period of one's life when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with… — Suzanne Hayes Copy Share Image
“And the more I thought about it, the more I dug out of memory things I had overlooked or forgotten. I realized then that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A man could only spend so much of his time ignoring the present before the present made him a thing of the past.” — S.M. White Copy Share Image
“I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“It was over. He would be dead within minutes, or hours, at most. He thought that if he had it to do over again,… — G.F. Gustav Copy Share Image
“memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.” — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“rip the tongue from the darkness shake the earth with your breathing and explode gray ice dreams of eternity” — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives,… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time. — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things? — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
The only way to get change is not through the courts or — heaven forbid — the politicians, but through a change of human… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul. — Leslie Marmon Silko 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 fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share
“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
