Memory Quotes
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Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
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Memory is a funny thing. Makes you remember things that didn't really happen and forget things that did. I'm so scared I'll forget because if I forget all these things that happened then there will be no one on earth who remembers them.
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We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is no longing.
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Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.
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I am a great observer of things, and I do it all the time. I store stuff; I use it as an actor; that sort of recall, of emotional memory and images of things, just tastes of things.
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Our memory reaches back through recorded history. The memory book lies open, and the hand still writes.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.
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True love rules especially through memory.
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We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.
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Sometimes it's a negative because I still have a memory of some of the things I could do... when I still had two arms.
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One day we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner.
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The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
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It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.
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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
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I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
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Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.
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There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.
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Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.
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People who suffer from depression have better memory than people who don’t, because part of our ability to survive and not to be depressed is to forget a lot of stuff.
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They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.
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We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.
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I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'
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Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.
