Monday, February 27, 2006
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- "The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten." ~ Cesare Pavese
- "A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction." ~ Carol Shields
- "A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose." ~ Queenie (1971) by Hortense Calisher
- "A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen." ~ Edward de Bono
- "All gone. Zelazny was one of the first times I looked at something I had had familiarity with to find the spot where the memory should have been empty, replaced by a scrawled 'Moved South for the Fishing' sign. Calculus was another loss. It was quite upsetting to reach for a skill and find nothing." (James Nicoll, 2004)
- "Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door." ~ Saul Bellow
- "Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened ~ T.S. Eliot
- "God gave us memories that we might have roses in December." ~ Courage (1922) by J. M. Barrie
- "I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future." ~ David Gerrold
- "I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact." ~ Diane Sawyer
- "In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified." ~ John Updike
- "It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?" ~ Lord Byron
- "It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life." ~ P.D. James
- "It is sad how one dark moment can live forever burned in the back of ones mind." ~ Anonymous
- "It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time." ~ Barbara Kingsolver
- "Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart." ~ Thomas Fuller
- "Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things." ~ Atlanta Journal ~ Pierce Harris
- "Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food." ~ Austin O'Malley
- "Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose." ~ The Wonder Years
- "Memory is what tells a man that his wife's birthday was yesterday." ~ Mario Rocco
- "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." ~ Michel de Montaigne
- "Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth." ~ A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
- Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness. Andre Gide
- "She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes." ~ Frank Deford
- "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- "The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant." ~ Salvador Dali
- "The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- "The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected." ~ Scent in Your Garden (1991) by Stephen Lacey
- "The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory." ~ Anonymous
- "The two offices of memory are collection and distribution." ~ Samuel Johnson
- "There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory." ~ Josh Billings
- "Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." ~ Seneca
- "What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen." ~ Cynthia Ozick
- "You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories." ~ Stanislaw Lec
- "... and what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions until all you can remember is a name." ~ Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
- "Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our exiastence." - Sholem Asch, The Nazarene
- "Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid." - Ugo Betti, Goat Island
- "We have all forgot more than we remember." - Thomas Fuller - Gnomologia
- "A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgement." - Montaigne, Essays
- "Women and elephants never forget." - Dorothy Parker, Ballads of Unfortunate Animals
- "If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered." - Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
- What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. - Portuguese proverb
- "Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad." - George Bernard Shaw - The Irrational Knot
- "A man's real possesion is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. - Alexander Smith - Dreanthorp
- Memory, like women, is usually unfaithful. - Spanish proverb
- "We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language." - Thoreau
- "In memory everything seems to happen to music." - Tennessee Williams, The Glass Managerie
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