Memory Quote by Tobias Wolff Download Open image ““He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.”” — Tobias Wolff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memory
“He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“For the first time he could remember, he had something in his life that he really looked forward to.” — M Leighton Copy Share Image
“He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I stopped and asked him if he was all right, and he said he was tired of remembering everything he wanted to forget and… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“Why was he doubly irritated? Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I don’t like being reminded of things I don’t remember doing while in a state of unremembrance.” — Patricia Gibney Copy Share Image
“There was something I ought to remember: and yet I did not remember.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.” — Neal Shusterman 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
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
You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“But for now Anders can still make time. Time for the shadows to lengthen on the grass, time for the tethered dog to bark… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Lose Faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me… — Tobias Wolff 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
