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What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

The memory was so vivid that, like a fresh scab, he was sure he would start to bleed if he picked at it. — Miyuki Miyabe

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. — Barbara Kingsolver

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Replace the old memory with a potentially crappier new one? No thank you. — Lauren Barnholdt

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young--now you are even younger. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

History is the memory of a nation — Thomas Sowell

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

Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. — Cormac McCarthy

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

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it. — Cara Black

Growing up, I meant to be a memory. — Alejandro Zambra

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

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

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

The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence. — Sara Gruen

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

The only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you. — David Foster Wallace

Never take anyone for granted. Never take anyone's kindness for their weakness. What's once yours could easily turn into a memory. — Rita Zahara

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

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

I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory. — Sloane Crosley

Memories with laughter are the best ones to keep. — Dan Groat

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

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! — Ninon De L'Enclos

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

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

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

The past is more than a memory. — John Trudell

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

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

Time is just memory
Mixed in with Desire. — Tom Waits

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

But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory. — Diane Meier

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. — Aubrey De Vere

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

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory. — Chip Heath

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

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

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

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

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often. — Junot Diaz

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

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

Memory is a riddled thing. I would caution you from making promises you cannot keep. — Roshani Chokshi

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

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function. — Paul Park

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination. — Amitav Ghosh

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

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. — Ann Brashares

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

I know you don't have access to that memory yet, but I don't think it's something I can just tell you. It means too much to me, I guess. — Courtney Allison Moulton

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

Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten? — Joyce Rachelle

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

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

Memory at last has what I sought. — Wislawa Szymborska

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

There is no greater pain or punishment than memory. — Victoria Aveyard

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

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

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

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

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. — Clifton Fadiman

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

Pre-Cambrian Memory. — John Steinbeck

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

Scent is the strongest tie to memory. — Maggie Stiefvater

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs. — Conor Oberst

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

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. — Jean Paul

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. — Victor Hugo

Any time gone by was better. — Jorge Manrique

Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does. — John Steinbeck

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

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

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting — Jude Morgan

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

In memory Venice is always magic. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory. — Alexis De Tocqueville