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Time and the things that are imprisoned in time's memory — Paulo Coelho

She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will. — Ian McEwan

Somewhere in my brain
each laugh, tear and lullaby
becomes memory. — Jacqueline Woodson

Love and memory and thought and dream ~
My favorite poems have never been written in words. — Kij Johnson

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is. — Jerry Saltz

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous. — Stephen King

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. — Andre Maurois

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. — Roger Zelazny

Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time blunts the pain and creates a mist over one's memory - at least in the case of death and sorrow. Other types of pain linger longer. — Melanie Dickerson

I knew I could never clean away this memory. We were stained and spoiled forever. — Keren David

I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life. — Sara Sheridan

For surely the food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to chew it. (Ayesha) — H. Rider Haggard

As she ran, a memory uncurled in her mind and spread out before her and it felt like she was running into the memory. — J.C. Morrows

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface ... — Ron Rash

Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260 — Donna Tartt

The dull parts of life spread out in your memory and crowd out the exciting parts until they just seem like little flashes. (Ron Weasley) — G. Norman Lippert

The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled. — Raymond L. Atkins

I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I can't really avoid getting into character. — Alexandra Daddario

Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives. — Annie Proulx

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins. — Kay Boyle

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement. — William Least Heat-Moon

The mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness. — F. Sionil Jose

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us. — Sam Tanenhaus

Every time we remind ourselves to focus on Love, our strength, abilities, and deep memory of it will increase. — Kelly Corbet

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge. — Jonathan Nolan

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living. — John Smith

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'. — Arthur Rimbaud

April is the cruelest month - - - - mixing memory and desire - - - — T. S. Eliot

Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system. Raskolnikov — Anton Chekhov

Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years? — Sara Sheridan

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt

April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot

People have a habit, in the age of cameraphones and social networking, of being a bit too quick to turn all sorts of experiences into a 'memory'. — Tom Cox

You remember it your way and I'll remember it mine. — Jon Chopan

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ... — Susanne Katherina Langer

All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory. — Diana Gabaldon

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. — John Berger

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways. — Gail Carson Levine

But that age ... exerts on us
An almost terrible charm,
Like the memory of things seen
And a life lived in dreams. — Heinrich Heine

Every event creates a memory in the heart; photographs remind and reinforce that memory in the future, — Debasish Mridha

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them. — Jerome K. Jerome

Except heaven is a hope , and eden is a memory . — Craig Thompson

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you. — Kevin Rahm

I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness. — Gene Fowler

Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory. — James Joyce

Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option. — Alex Gibney

Thanks for the memory Of lingerie with lace, Pilsner by the case And how I jumped the day you trumped my one-and-only ace How lovely it was! — Leo Robin

Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory. — Jenifer Lewis

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. — Lactantius

Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And survival is only possible through forgetfulness. — Erich Maria Remarque

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'. — Larry Wall

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me. — James MacArthur

I gaze upon the sky and see
What I want myself to be;
A person who was here and gone,
And whose memory will always live on. — Omar Kiam

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. — George Santayana

There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late. — Thomas Pynchon

She can still feel the memory of what it was to be fully human, and mistake that ghost for honest sensation. — Peter Watts

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

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence. — John O'Donohue

He had managed to lock away everything he didn't want to remember... and the memories returned as well. — Daniel Levine

Another family story is forges, one that father and son will laugh about for decades. This is how a legacy is built. One memory at a time. — Mitch Albom

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. — Michel De Montaigne

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory. — Pat Conroy

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. — Giovanni Ruffini

Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. — Alain De Botton

I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this. — Kate Christensen

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame. — James Russell Lowell

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life. — Josiah Royce

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. — Dan Chaon

Love is inaudible - until you hear it. And once you do, you'll never forget the sound of her voice. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Humans make art to remember and be remembered," said Caius. "Art is their weapon against forgetting. — Melissa Grey

Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special. — Tom Heinsohn

If you want to be able to recall everything and anything in detail,
then you need to be strong enough to feel all bad memories as well. — Toba Beta

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively

I lie and am lied to, but the result of my lie is mental leaps, memory, knowledge. — Walter Abish

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them. — Rebecca McClanahan

And that's where I want to finish out my life, Red. In a warm place that has no memory. — Stephen King

Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget. — David Baldacci

I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not. — Erica Bauermeister

Happiness is health and a short memory! — Audrey Hepburn

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human. — Elie Wiesel

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. — Samuel Reshevsky

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. — Albert Camus

Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was. — Chad Kultgen

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. — Vladimir Nabokov

All that I possess and use Is like the fleeting vision of a dream. It fades into the realms of memory, And fading, will be seen no more. — Santideva

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone. — Terry Pratchett

But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory's fog is rising. — Emily Dickinson

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

You can pull a goat off into the field, but a memory you can only haul into the sun and hope it desiccates. Dries to something crumbled and odorless. — Peter Heller

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson

When you offer a negative thought of action, you open the negative memory-bank and you may lose all your power to persuade. — Napoleon Hill

A scattered dream that's like a far-off memory ... a far-off memory that's like a scattered dream ... i want to line the pieces up ... yours and mine. — Shiro Amano

I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love. — Catherine Lacey

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other. — Francis Bacon

I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. — Edgar Allan Poe

Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power. — Georges Didi-Huberman