2,914 Quotes About Memory
- Author D.S. Mixell
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I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than jut in their head.
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- Author Vladimir Nabokov
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For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.
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- Author Sangu Mandanna
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But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.
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- Author Harold Pinter
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There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
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- Author Dejan Stojanovic
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When all is lost, there is still a memory.
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- Author Salman Rushdie
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Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Memory is the binding foam of our mental life.
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- Author Максим Бутченко
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Борьба за "прекрасное прошлое" преграждает [путь] любым возможностям мыслей о будущем. Как сварливая жена и мать, "отдавшая лучшие годы" другому времени, мы не способны понимать настоящее и не хотим думать о том, что ждет нас дальше.
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- Author Alice Hoffman
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...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.
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