Memory Quotes
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I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.
Elizabeth Lesser
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You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
Sigrid Nunez
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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
Amelia Barr
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The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant
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Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory.
Judy Sheindlin
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Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.
Elizabeth Loftus
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In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll
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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
Alfred de Musset
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Memory is not what the heart desires.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.
Ethan Canin
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The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.
Bill Gates
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By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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All along I have known they are confident players, but they don't do it in a boastful way. Tommie is not intimidated by anybody. I have this vivid memory of how we were about to tip it off at North Carolina, and he looked like he had been there 25 times before. Kevin is the same way. How many big shots has he made in every setting?
Brad Soderberg
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
William Faulkner
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In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
George Eliot
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My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.
Sarah Parish
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That memory was a knife that kept on cutting.
Courtney Milan
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Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.
Elizabeth Scott
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I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.
Cesar Romero
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Her breath smelled terrible and I told myself to commit that fact to memory, to remember it the next time I was intimidated by her unwavering grace.
Ben Lerner
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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
Paul Klee