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But, memory paints impressionistic portraits of the past, enhancing some images and blurring others. To her,
— Monique Martin
Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
— Katherine Center
We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date.
— Yu Hua
A memory elbowed its way past Bishop's fear and stood defiant in the forefront of his mind. Bishop Washington never forgot a face.
— Ninie Hammon
We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
— Michel Faber
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
— Wallace Stegner
Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.
— Mark Van Doren
Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
— Stephen Levine
I slipped from present to past, sliding down the snake heads of memory into what was and what would never be again.
— John Connolly
Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences guide us to wisdom.
— Suzy Kassem
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.
— Robert Penn Warren
A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.
— Maurice Chevalier
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
— Richard Paul Evans
The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.
— Ashim Shanker
Memory was a slippery thing - slick moss on an unstable slope - and it was ever so easy to lose one's footing and fall
— Kelly Barnhill
Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
— Gautama Buddha
People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and memory, what is that?
— Jeanette Winterson
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.
— Eckhart Tolle
The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.
— Michael Ondaatje
Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.
— Paulo Coelho
The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ...
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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
Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.
— Edward R. Murrow
The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.
— Orson Scott Card
The past is one evil less and one memory more.
— Elbert Hubbard
I have tried to use memory and invention together, like two hands engaged in the same muddy work of digging up the past.
— Emma Donoghue
Your words crossed a threshold,And entered the past,
Yet they have created,
A word that will last. — Somya Kedia
Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.
— Daniel Alarcon
Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.
— Steve Erickson
I now know how your angercame from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them. — Susie Clevenger
There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi
And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind
— Jacques Roubaud
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.
— Giovanni Ruffini
