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"I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be."
"I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother."
"I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family."
"If memories were all I sang, I'd rather drive a truck."
"I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can."
"My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together."
"Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice."
"Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again."
"To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was."
"Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well."
"Remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it. In that very memory your entire Being gets back to that state"
"Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal."
"I have a bad memory for facts."
"Memory is the basis of every journey."
"The color white is the absence of memory."
"I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love."
"But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift."
"Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy."
"As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes."
"Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet.... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it."
