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

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

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be. — Bob Dylan

His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return, — George Orwell

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. — Albert Einstein

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. — Anthony Hecht

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. — Erich Maria Remarque

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

Memory can move very swiftly. Words do not possess the same swiftness. — C.S. Lakshmi

Nostalgia, it's nothing but pain," Robert said. "It's memory poisoned by the anguish of loss. — Laird Barron

I don't like perfect people. They're usually not. — James L. Rubart

What is a man but another man's memory — Addison Killebrew

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop. — David Levithan

It's a small reminder, but it lingers, and the more I try to ignore the memory, it multiplies into a monster that can no longer be contained. — Tahereh Mafi

They live in human memory, man. That's what keeps them alive. — Rick Riordan

The memory of having sat at someone's feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot. — Soseki Natsume

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams. — Pat Conroy

... That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. ... — Catherynne M Valente

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory. — Henry Anatole Grunwald

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. — Oscar Wilde

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood. — Gregory Crewdson

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could. — Cheryl Strayed

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

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty. — Jean Shepherd

I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment. — Ruthie Henshall

These experiences were not lodged in Maxon's memory. They were not allowed to stay there. — Lydia Netzer

It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined. — Sarah Dessen

Mom isn't content taking a stroll down memory lane. She's bought a condo and spends half the year there. — Paula Wall

As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man's character. — Robin Hobb

I can forgive, but no matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there's a trigger for every memory. — Calia Read

Each man's destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen to resemble what is already in his memory. — Eduardo Mallea

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is but today's dream. — Kahlil Gibran

Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes. — Louis Malle

With relief I arrived at memory's peak,
and a broader landscape came into view. — Yu Hua

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back. — Paula Fox

I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me. — Marcel Proust

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory — Christopher Hitchens

It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory. — Marjorie Garber

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back. — Stephen King

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive. — D.S. Mixell

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals. — Malcolm X

Rome is everybody's memory ... — Eleanor Clark

I scrub the memory from my mind. There is no past. There is no future. Love, if that's what it is, is as short as it is eternal. — Chloe Thurlow

Memory is an event horizon What's caught in it is gone but it's always there. — Ann Leckie

So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG — T. S. Eliot

It's like a memory in stereo." Sandy — James J. Murray

A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur. — V.S. Naipaul

How far back does one's memory of someone go? — Kyung-Sook Shin

It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under. — Joaquin Lowe

Depend upon it, her mother's voice said sternly in her memory, no prudent man will ever accept a wife who knows more than himself. — Eloisa James

Some people say it's easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory. — Virginia Vayna

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. — Gustave Flaubert

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. — Oliver Sacks

Jess's grandmother had often said that the key to a happy life was a short memory. — Jojo Moyes

The funny thing about memory is that it can't be fully trusted, and yet, in the end, it's the only truth we have. — Mindscape

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

He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly. — Rebecca McNutt

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

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

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

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth. — Shannon Hale

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

It's only a dream
Just a memory without anywhere to stay — Neil Young

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory. — Lina Rehal

To remember a man's name is to give him eternal life — Bill Gunn

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory. — Henry David Thoreau

Tom Walls and his cohort are wolves in sheep's clothing who will besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures by the next full moon. — Dionne Warwick

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything. — Anthony Jeselnik

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish. — Steve Erickson

Deep in December
it's nice to remember
without a hurt
the heart is hollow. — Tom Jones

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

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. — C.S. Lewis

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

Each man's memory is his own private literature — Aldous Huxley

Love, you are the dark cut into memory.
Small, distant, as the sparrow's eye. — Brenda Sieczkowski

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. — James A. Garfield

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

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

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

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

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

Such a night cannot be shaken from a woman's memory. Such a night changes your life forever. — Sara Sheridan

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