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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
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"You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember."

People Past Memories
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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal."

Ideas Memories Information
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Martha Graham Dancer, choreographer
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"Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years."

Mother Father Memories
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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
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"Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion would be played again, often in these same places, in an oddly similar fashion two or three centuries later. The role of the leper was to be played by the poor and by the vagrant, by prisoners and by the 'alienated', and the sort of salvation at stake for both parties in this game of exclusion is the matter of this study."

Party Memories Fashion
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Morgan Freeman Actor, Narrator
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"Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive."

Memories Rights Kings
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Klaus Mann Author
Memories

"Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember."

Reality Powerful Memories
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Huston Smith Philosopher
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"After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory."

Memories Vision Awakening
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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength."

Memories Fashion Childhood
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant."

Writing Play Memories
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Banana Yoshimoto Novelist
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"We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions."

Dream School Memories
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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay. Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes."

Inspirational Moving Memories
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Philip Roth Novelist
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"Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews."

Memories Boys Childhood
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