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

All of it was ashes now: the smooth wood, the soft edges, the memory of his hands. — Lois Lowry

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

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. — Henry David Thoreau

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

History is the memory of a nation — Thomas Sowell

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

One is never truly alone, even when our only company is our thoughts, because what are thoughts if not the memory of interactions with others? — Laura Esquivel

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives. — Phil Donahue

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

I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life ... — Mordecai Richler

When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. — Jane Austen

History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past. — T.L. Rese

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

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds? — Alastair Reynolds

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

From country to country as if it were an anchor, or the memory of dropping the first anchor. — Kim Thuy

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions! — Ashim Shanker

I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own. — Anne Sexton

We become aware, with amazement, that we have forgotten nothing, every memory evoked rises in front of us painfully clear. — Primo Levi

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

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

The pleasantest hours of our life are all connected...with some memory of the table. — Charles Monselet

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

What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. — Richard Eyre

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

I wonder if this is what other people seem to have that I do not - this courage to fall because they have the memory of standing. Then — Kerry Kletter

The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy. — Laini Taylor

I'm always going to be with you, you know. As long as you remember me, I will exist. Memory is a form of existence, life after death. — Andrea Speed

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

Reading her reviews kept his memory of her alive in a way he probably shouldn't want. — Rainbow Rowell

I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life. — Israel Horovitz

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I'm not leaving you. Not going it alone. Not looking at the memory of you everytime I close my eyes. — Charles Martin

You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks. — Neal Barnard

The sensation was an explosion of feelings, leaving in its place a pleasured memory of that moment. That, thought Seth, was pure heaven — Kenneth Eade

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

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

One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory. — Angela Lam Turpin

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

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. — William Shakespeare

The color white is the absence of memory. — Stephen King

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

The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings. — Pittacus Lore

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

Do not trust your memory, it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. — Georges Duhamel

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

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

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure. — Eduardo Galeano

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing ... Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions. — Russell Hoban

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

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago. — James Herriot

I would give everything, even memory - especially memory - if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I — Simon Van Booy

Tech, in the sense of ... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me. — Mitchell Baker

Memory is the binding foam of our mental life. — Abhijit Naskar

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

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life. — Joan D. Vinge

No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth - ... — Amitav Ghosh

Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness. — Tzvetan Todorov

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

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

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

Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish. — Justin Somper

The mists of nostalgia color memory. — Ken Tucker

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

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

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'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything. — David Wenham

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

As always, he found her better-looking in the flesh than in the memory he had of her when not present. — Robert Galbraith

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

If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. — Michael Jackson

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

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

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. — Nicolas Chamfort

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

The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory. — Josh Hartnett

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

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

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

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. — Isaac Asimov

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lost — Kevin Arnold

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy

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

Every part contained a memory of the other parts it was directly attached to. — Stanislaw Lem

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love? — Rachel L. Schade

Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind. — Georg Simmel

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

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin. — Brian Ruckley

I can't scrape that memory off the inside of my skull fast enough! — Karen Marie Moning

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

Every memory is precious. It is more precious when it is a memory of a baby's smile. — Debasish Mridha