Friendships Quote by Stephen King

“Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered thoughts--a few…

— Henry James

“A perfect memory is the enemy of thought.”

— Esther Murphy Arthur

“But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in…

— Victor Serge

“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“…It was embarrassing now to recall with what little regret he had let slip his pleasures and preoccupations, the imminence of loss revealing them…

— P.D. James

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would seem a…

— Thomas Paine

“Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people he had…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Each memory, good and bad, was another invisible thread that bound them together, even when they were foolishly thinking they could lead separate lives.…

— Liane Moriarty

“He suffered incessantly from the fact that his critical faculties transcended his constructive capacities. In a manner of speaking, his critical sense robbed him…

— Albert Einstein